2009 Domaine Raymond Usseglio & Fils Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Girard

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 90 points

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  12/30/2020 - Wiveka wrote:

  Very dark black cherries color. On the nose leather, dark cherries and liqorice. Smooth and soft. Probable on its peak. Wish I had more bottles.

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  12/23/2017 - mikered Likes this wine: 92 Points

  The nose opens with beef jerky, menthol and black plum. After a little swirling black cherry, chalk, tar, salt, new leather and blackberry. Big juicy and mouthwatering, still firm tannins. Big dark fruit and soy with good acid and flintiness. Nice long leathery, forest flour finish. A little hot but what would you expect from 09. Quite good. Perfect with roasted pork tenderloin, a mushroom and red wine reduction and roasted new potatoes.

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  3/30/2015 - KeithAkers wrote:

  Nose: There is a nice dose of black cherries, kirsch liqueur, garrigue, dark red fruits, violets, and some leather tones.
  
  Taste: Medium bodied with silky tannins. The feel is polished with black cherries, garrigue, liqueur, and leather notes.
  
  Overall: This is obviously young. But, it's still very tasty after a 3 hour decant.

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  12/22/2014 - mflesh wrote: 89 Points

  Good for what it is. FYI and before I go much further. Decant this one because it throws a peculiar amount of sediment --- or at least it did for me. Wine opened up with black cherry on the nose. Bottle decanted about 30 minutes. Poured a VERY DARK black cherry color into the glass, with a nose that was also black cherry-ish. The palate is brambly raspberry, a little acidity but not much. The middle is where this one doesn't go to 90 -- because there's just not much here. A little EtOH starts to creep in, black cherry notes continue....the wine is a little boring in the mid-palate. Finish is a little stronger, a bit tannic. Towards the end of the last glass I was "glass filtering" this one due to the sediment in the bottle. Finished tannic, a little earthy and woodsy with a little EtOH on the palate and stinging the tongue. Not very peppery. I'd rate this one a little better if it was only something other than unidimensional. Perhaps this bottle isn't in the right place at the moment. I don't think there's any way this wine will make it to 2022. I say done by 2020 with proper cellaring.

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  11/27/2012 - dexwine Likes this wine:

  14.5% After 30 minutes, dirt, underbrush, green herbs and savory spices, with shy black fruits. Fine, chalky tannins adds structure, fresh with nice lift, balanced. 45 minutes later, riper fruit emerges as the wine fills out some. Nothing weighty or concentrated here. This is about nicely integrated, defined flavors, balance, lift, and another sip.

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