P. Usseglio "Cuvee de Mon Aieul" Chateauneuf du Pape 2003

Deep red.

Deep, spicy, grilled meat, A-1 sauce nose. Cherry jam underneath.

Really plush/packed spicy cherry jam in the mouth. Great mid-palate flesh, with acid-driven, sulphide/mineral/tannic edge increasingly dominant. Loaded. Very young. Like CdPapes, this needs air in the worst way.

Day 3 - Deep truffle/earth action on the nose, Amarone-esque. Rocks. Deep, thick and loaded in the mouth too. Just huge, cherry jam, length. Some spicy action too. Jesus. Complex? A bit. Likely more so with several years of bottle age. Strawberry as the dominant, very late finishing flavor. I love Clos des Papes' purity, but the guts/concentration here are on another level.

Day 5 - Now showing some oxidation/muddied character.

$70