Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions and should ultimately become elegant

and should ultimately become elegant as well as powerful

clean and well-balanced finale

The wine has intensity

all of which is trimmed in just enough wood to warrant mentioning

Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions and should ultimately become elegantRuby 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