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Rayas Chateauneuf du Pape 1996

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Bottle

Normal condition

Bottle - Hong Kong
5 bottles
$ 12,240
Bottles quantity

Ratings & Tasting Notes

90
score

The 1996 Rayas, vinified by Jacques Reynaud but bottled by his nephew Emmanuel, exemplifies the primacy of terroir and producer over vintage. The wine bursts from the glass with a lovely bouquet of sweet kirsch, prune, balsam bough, saddle leather and autumn leaves. On the palate the wine is a broad, sappy and nicely balanced middle-weight, which makes a mockery of its critical reception. One moment the wine seems to decline in the glass; the next, it opens up again with a blaze of fruit to enjoy a second wind. Wine is a moving target, and this bottle was a great nemesis to the hubris of forgetting that.


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