Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions An exuberantly fresh nose combines

An exuberantly fresh nose combines notes of various red berries

Drink now through 2017

clean and well-balanced finale

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

Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions An exuberantly fresh nose combinesRuby 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