Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions clean and well-balanced finale

clean and well-balanced finale

white flowers and citrus zest

Not my style but certainly a lot of effort has gone into this

This vintage contains one-third Cinsault from some vines dating back to 1900

Drink now through 2017

Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions clean and well-balanced finaleRuby red. Aroma of red fruit liqueur. Sweet and nicely concentrated, with good volume but only modest nuance. Shows good freshness and fruit, but finishes with some youthfully tough tannins. Seems distinctly cleaner than a bottle of the '98 I tasted last year. However, my sample of the '99 Cuvee Imperiale was plagued by a raw wood quality that dried its finish. Stephen Tanzer