Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions Not my style but certainly

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

and should ultimately become elegant as well as powerful

atypically long for a 1997

Drink now through 2017

Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions Not my style but certainlyRuby 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