Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions This vintage contains one-third Cinsault

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

An exuberantly fresh nose combines notes of various red berries

An ultra-elegant nose exhibits a broad range of spice and floral elements on the black cherry and plum-suffused aromas

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

white flowers and citrus zest

Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions This vintage contains one-third CinsaultRuby 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