The Château Rayas of Rhône méridional of Rhone Valley

Château Rayas - Château de Fonsalette Côtes du Rhône Réservé Blanc
The winery offers 6 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.5.
This estate is part of the Château Rayas.
It is ranked in the top 2 of the estates of Rhone Valley.
It is located in Rhône méridional in the region of Rhone Valley

The Château Rayas is one of the largest wineries in the world. It offers 6 wines for sale in of Rhône méridional to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Château Rayas wines

Looking for the best Château Rayas wines in Rhône méridional among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Château Rayas wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Château Rayas wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Château Rayas

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Château Rayas

How Château Rayas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or mature and hard cheese such as recipes of soft and inexpensive pasta gratin, smoked salmon sandwich or jack be little in a hat ....

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Château Rayas

On the nose the white wine of Château Rayas. often reveals types of flavors of almonds, butter or orange rind and sometimes also flavors of dried fruit, orange peel or tree fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Château Rayas. is a powerful.

The best vintages in the white wines of Château Rayas

  • 1998With an average score of 4.50/5
  • 2004With an average score of 4.48/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.48/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.47/5
  • 2007With an average score of 4.42/5
  • 2009With an average score of 4.37/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Château Rayas.

  • Clairette
  • Marsanne
  • Grenache Blanc
  • Viognier
  • Roussanne

Discovering the wine region of Rhône méridional

Côtes du Rhône is a regional appellation in the Rhône Valley in eastern France. It applies to red, rosé and white wines, and includes more than 170 villages. The area follows the course of the Rhône southward for 125 miles (200 km) from Saint-Cyr-sur-le-Rhône to Avignon. A small portion of the wines in the appellation are white wines.

However, the classic Côtes du Rhône wine is a blend of Fruity, medium-weight reds made from Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre. The Côtes du Rhône appellation was introduced in November 1937. Its purpose was to give a general title to good quality Rhone wines from the lesser known and less prestigious wine producing areas of the valley. Côtes du Rhône The landscape of the Côtes du Rhône.

The top red wines of Château Rayas

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Château Rayas

How Château Rayas wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of lamb, pork or poultry such as recipes of couscous of meat and fish, barbecued filet mignon or the chicken with rice of the mother michèle.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Château Rayas

On the nose the red wine of Château Rayas. often reveals types of flavors of iron, honey or microbio and sometimes also flavors of earth, non oak or oil. In the mouth the red wine of Château Rayas. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Château Rayas

  • 1978With an average score of 4.80/5
  • 1989With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1986With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1990With an average score of 4.70/5
  • 1995With an average score of 4.66/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.63/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Château Rayas.

  • Grenache
  • Shiraz/Syrah
  • Cinsault

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Château Rayas

Planning a wine route in the of Rhône méridional? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Château Rayas.

Discover the grape variety: Grenache

Grenache noir is a grape variety that originated in Spain. It produces a variety of grape specially used for the elaboration of wine. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by medium to large bunches, and grapes of medium size. Grenache noir can be found in many vineyards: South West, Cognac, Bordeaux, Provence & Corsica, Languedoc & Roussillon, Rhone Valley, Loire Valley, Savoie & Bugey, Beaujolais.

News about Château Rayas and wines from the region

Christie’s 2021 DWWA charity wine auction sets new record

A total of £72,600 was raised from 79 lots at the sixteenth DWWA wine auction hosted by Christie’s on 2 December – beating a record set in 2018. This total excludes Christie’s buyer’s premium. All proceeds will be added to funds raised by Decanter throughout the DWWA this year. Charities supported include The Drinks Trust, WaterAid, Cancer Research UK, Change Please, Decanter Apprenticeships and more. Over the past 12 months, Decanter has donated in excess of £100,000 to these charities. T ...

Decanter’s Regional Editors pick out their top wines for Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC

In the first part of this series, see the wines that the Decanter editorial team is most excited about tasting at the Decanter Fine Wine Encounter NYC on Saturday 18th June 2022. Amy Wislocki – Decanter Magazine Editor Cape Landing Blackwood Cabernet Sauvignon, Margaret River 2019 At the end of every year at Decanter, we organise a ‘Wines of the Year‘ tasting. We ask our key contributors and editorial staff to pick out the wines that most impressed them during the year just gon ...

Walls: Tavel and its unexpected revolution

When asked which is the most exciting appellation in the Rhône, there’s one that currently springs to mind before all others: Tavel. I have to be honest with you: I don’t buy much rosé. So, given that Tavel is, according to The Oxford Companion to Wine, ‘one of France’s few all-rosé appellations,’ my response might be unexpected. The Oxford Companion is technically correct, of course – the wines made here are paler than a typical red wine. But compared to other rosés, that’s where the comparison ...

The word of the wine: New

Said of a wine from the last harvest, and more particularly of an early wine.