Community Tasting Note

• steffenpelz wrote:

  August 6, 2012 - As always, a very reliable wine that I acquired at closeout for about $25/bottle. Deep, dark, purple color with a brawny nose of licorice and berry compote. On the palate, it is still searingly tannic for a generic CdP its age, and it delivers huge flavors of licorice, cherry, blackberry, and underbrush. While this is price-wise more of a weekday wine, I suspect it will hold up for a very very long time. I find Pierre Usseglio's basic CdP to be maybe the best value in basic CdP, so you really can't go wrong with this bottling unless you are considering buying a very poor vintage in the Southern Rhone (ala 2002). Recommended.

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