This may well better harmonize but it would be fair to observe that the balance isn’t perfect

very deep crimson

The supple

I would have had to harvest everything on the same day

Raymond Usseglio, Chateauneuf Du Pape other_regions_australia This may well better harmonizeRuby 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