I grilled lamb racks last night with new potatoes and fresh green beans. I found a bottle of 1998 Usseglio CNP Cuvee de Mon Aieul that a friend gifted to me a few weeks ago. The wine was reddish purple in the glass with a faint hint of brick. Fairly tight nose of blueberries and sage. Plummy on the palate with a richness and intensity that I wasn't ready for. Lots of layers of red and black fruits, mineral notes a bit of beef blood and a faint herbal note. The wine kept building as I tasted it and by the end of the bottle it was really singing. "A"
Usseglio
Jun 13, 2010
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thanks for notes, nice gift! I enjoyed the regular P. Usselglio 98, but they're all gone.
Yes this is the top cuvee, I hae tasted more recent vintages and they are very good.
A friend had brought it to my farm a few weeks ago to share with dinner. I had no idea what he had brought as we had too many wines that particular evening and the Usseglio didn't get opened and apparantly he stuck it in my under counter storage unit. I sent my 21 year old son to pull a bottle of CNP ( I had recently purchased some Janesse from recent vintages) and he returned with the opened bottle of Usseglio. Yikes!
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