2010 Domaine Raymond Usseglio & Fils Châteauneuf-du-Pape Cuvée Impériale

Community Tasting Notes (49) Avg Score: 94.2 points

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  3/6/2024 - WojteG Likes this wine: 100 Points

  I don't even know where to start. I always hesitate when it comes to giving a wine the highest points. But this time, it was very easy in my limited wine Universe. Let's start from the beginning.
  2 hours in the decanter.
  Smell? Delicate, fragile almost shy, but well defined. Sweet red and black cherry, flowers, minerals, smoke, more sweets( vanilla?).
  Nevermind, because when you take the first sip you will forget about everything else.
  It's hard to describe it, but it is a symphony of all kinds of black and red fruits with incredible coincidence black pepper and other spices. The balance and structure is amazing. And it's also amazing the "cooperation" with acidity and tannins. Soft texture, juicy juice.
  The finish lasts forever.
  I take the smallest sip I can, because on my back is my wife and my sister ( I am very surprised that they like it, because of visual spice).
  I have red more than a dozen reviews of this wine, but none of them mentioned this fantastic spice interaction. Probably because it was reviewed too young
  
  2010 in ChdP got 98 points according to WA Vintage Guide. Extraordinary. Early maturing and accessible
  Wine?
  RP - 99
  JD - 97
  Jeff Leve - 97
  Vinous - 94
  WS - 93

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  2/12/2024 - markcic Likes this wine: 93 Points

  At Robert's birthday lunch. It was a mistake to bring this bottle as it was way too young and deserved a decent amount of time in the decanter as opposed to a pop and pour. Dark red fruit, some fig, currants and spice leading to moderate to long finish. I think a few years in the cellar of a few hours in the decanter will definitely improve the score.

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  8/25/2023 - DesMarteau Likes this wine: 95 Points

  More of a future score ….this is incredibly made. Thick rich and has trouble opening and settling down over 2 .5 hours Cherry , graphite, spice , cranberry, hidden tannins…
  
  Really rich and evolving

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  8/5/2023 - Sanlucar Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Blackberry compote under a layer of asphalt. It's big and bold, but two days after opening and this wine has barely moved toward releasing its inner beauty. You can hold on to this for years but I think it's now at the point of maturity and would highly recommend drinking the remaining bottles sooner rather than later. Greatly over-rated by Parker with a score of 99... I believe it will never be as good as described.

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  7/17/2023 - hkbob Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Medium garnet. Sweet red fruit, Mediterranean herbs, violets, star anise, orange pecoe tea and earth notes. This is medium to full-bodied, drinks young still with good intensity and mouth-watering acidity, plump primarily red-fruited mid-palate and some tannins still to be resolved on the back-end. An excellent wine that will be better with at least another 3-5 years of cellaring, IMO. If drinking now, a couple of hours in the decanter is suggested.

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