2007 Rayas - Bad News

[M.Twelftree]

Yes Mark, this is correct
the 2007 Falletto was very short,hard and angular in the mouth,
the flight of 1996, 2000, 2001, 2004 Falletto Riserva were monumental with only the 2000 no performing due to cork taint.
MT

[Mark_Golodetz]

Thanks, a shame since that vintage was so suited to the kind of magic Bruno routinely did. Can’t remember when Dante left, but I thought he was still around when the 2007s were made or at least harvested.

[Gerhard_P]

@M.Twelftree

I think its more likely a bottling issue as they would bottle each foudre separately, one foudre had not completed its sugar and with a low sulphur add, we are off to the party, their was alway speculation with in France as why the 2007 was released so late.



… I have not had a spellbinding Rayas since Jacques passing and I have tried most.

Already the 2006 has been released 3 or 4 years after the vintage, so this is irrelevant. The 2009 had been released in early 2016.

It may be that YOU haven´t had spellbinding Rayas, but I had …
FWIW, just tasted the 2015 from foudre … simply great.

And 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009 … are great wines as ever …

To state that for instance the 1996 (last vintage vinified by Jacques, but bottled by Emmanuel) is better than 2004, 2006 … is either wrong - or very personal.

[Laurent_Gibet]

As Gerhard, and after many Rayas tasting, I think that the wines produced by Emmanuel Reynaud are more precise and elegant (the Musigny of Châteauneuf …)

The 2007, quite massive, might somehow evoke the monumental 1995.

[John_Morris]

@G. D y e r

Upper echelon vineyards in what have historically been marginal climates have been prized for their capacity to ripen fruit even in tough vintages. In an era of global warming, how marginal are these climates? Shouldn’t we expect hot vintages in the best ripening vineyards to have negative effects?

I don’t think of Chateauneuf as one of those marginal climates like Burgundy.

[Gerhard_P]

@John Morris

@G. D y e r

Upper echelon vineyards in what have historically been marginal climates have been prized for their capacity to ripen fruit even in tough vintages. In an era of global warming, how marginal are these climates? Shouldn’t we expect hot vintages in the best ripening vineyards to have negative effects?

I don’t think of Chateauneuf as one of those marginal climates like Burgundy.

Just FWIW: the Rayas vineyard (actually vineyards) are an exception in CdP - not only do they have no stones to store the heat of the day, they also have a slightly Northern exposition - AND they lie more or less between strips of woods - all of which leads to a far cooler microclimate and later ripening …

When Emmanuel Reynaud once showed me the vineyards at app. 5.30 p.m. (in summer !) the sandy/clay soil was rather cold in the shadows … definitely also a reason for the finess of Rayas.

BTW: RAYAS is Spanish and means “a strip of (bare) land in the woods” (a narrow glade)

[Peter_Chiu]

@Gerhard P.

@John Morris

@G. D y e r

Upper echelon vineyards in what have historically been marginal climates have been prized for their capacity to ripen fruit even in tough vintages. In an era of global warming, how marginal are these climates? Shouldn’t we expect hot vintages in the best ripening vineyards to have negative effects?

I don’t think of Chateauneuf as one of those marginal climates like Burgundy.

Just FWIW: the Rayas vineyard (actually vineyards) are an exception in CdP - not only do they have no stones to store the heat of the day, they also have a slightly Northen exposition - AND they lie more or less between strips of woods - all of which leads to a far cooler microclimate and later ripening …

When Emmanuel Reynaud once showed me the vineyards at app. 5.30 p.m. (in summer !) the sandy/clay soil was rather cold in the shadows … definitely also a reason for the finess of Rayas.

BTW: RAYAS is Spanish and means “a strip of (bare) land in the woods” (a narrow glade)

Very interesting information. …merci