Candied red fruits, garrigue, spices and faded rose. A silky, airy Châteauneuf from Pignan, elegant, complex and beautifully mature, made by the same hand as the legendary Château Rayas.
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Product Details
Format
75 cl
Region
VALLEE DU RHONE
Vintage
2015
Classification
VILLAGE
Appellation
CHATEAUNEUF DU PAPE
Alcohol
15°
Colour
ROUGE
Country
FRANCE
Taster
Adrien
Confrérie
GRAND CHEVALIER
The Châteauneuf du Pape 2015 Pignan is the second great red of the mythical Château Rayas, drawn from a neighbouring lieu dit and vinified with the same care. Silky, deep and highly elegant, it offers a rare and refined expression of Grenache, enhanced by a decade of cellaring. This bottle qualifies for the Chevalier tier of the Confrérie des Clos Vivants.
Terroir and vineyards Pignan is a lieu dit lying to the north east of Châteauneuf du Pape, close to the Rayas vineyards. As at Rayas, there are no large rolled pebbles here: the vines grow on fine sands and clays, in plots bordered by woodland. This cool situation yields wines of great finesse, far from the power commonly associated with the appellation. Pignan comes almost exclusively from old Grenache vines, with very low yields, harvested by hand. The 2015 vintage, hot and sunny, produced ripe, concentrated and perfectly healthy fruit.
Tasting profile The colour is a luminous garnet with subtle tile like highlights. The nose is delicate and captivating: raspberry, candied cherry and wild strawberry, with notes of faded rose, garrigue, leather, liquorice and gentle spice. The palate is silky and airy, carried by well integrated tannins and a lovely freshness. The finish is long, spicy and floral. It is now in a very fine stage of opening and will keep for many years to come.
The estate Pignan is produced by Château Rayas, the cult estate of Châteauneuf du Pape, belonging to the Reynaud family. It was vinified for nearly thirty years by Emmanuel Reynaud, who passed away in 2025, with a style apart from fashion: very low yields, ageing in old barrels and absolute respect for the fruit and the terroir. This 2015, vinified under his hand, becomes all the more precious. Pignan is much sought after by enthusiasts who find in it the signature of Rayas.
Food and wine pairing Serve between 16 and 17 °C, having decanted it for an hour. It will pair beautifully with a rack of lamb roasted with thyme, pigeon with olives, a Provençal daube, a fillet of beef with truffles or roast partridge. Among cheeses, it works very well with a Banon, an aged sheep's milk tomme or a 24 month Comté.
Les Tours, in Sarrians The Tours estate, in Sarrians on the edge of Vacqueyras, came into the Reynaud family in the 1930s, bought by Louis Reynaud of Château Rayas. Louis entrusted it to his son Bertrand, who later handed it to his son Emmanuel.
