"This estate symbolizes the dramatic surge in quality that Chateauneuf has witnessed over the last decade" - Robert Parker
Thierry and Jean-Pierre Usseglio are the grandsons of an Italian immigrant farmworker who arrived in France in the thirties and acquired his own estate in the late forties. They have an amazing knowledge of their land and vinify and mature their wines according to the plot where it grew, using different sizes and ages of barrel, cask and vat. Grenache was a particular victim of the poor flowering in 2010, the proportion is slightly down this year and the wine will be drinkable from arrival. The Usseglio brothers have taken their estate to the top of the Chateauneuf tree and, despite the tiny crop, the wines are fantastic value. /CW
'In many ways, this estate symbolizes the dramatic surge in quality that Chateauneuf-du-Pape has witnessed over the last decade, the result of the younger generation taking an existing vineyard, augmenting it through meticulous purchases of very fine plots of old vines, and introducing two new cuvees of truly spectacular wines.' - Robert Parker, The World's Greatest Wine Estates
