Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions_australia menthol and bitter chocolate

menthol and bitter chocolate

Deeply perfumed aromas of ripe blackberry

Fruit essences and mineral salts animate the rich yet delicate palate

mineral-laden red fruit

Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions_australia menthol and bitter chocolateRuby 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