Wine & Spirits: Pale and creamy from start to finish, this has hints of richness from aging on the lees while the flavors remain tight and clean. Chill it for hamachi kama.

Wine Spectator: A spicy thread of sandalwood, cardamom and anise focuses flavors of ripe raspberry, black cherry and plum. It's bright and lightly grippy, with a moderate finish. Drink now th...

Wine Spectator: This has a solid frame, with graphite and roasted cedar holding the core of steeped plum and currant fruit together. A loam hint chimes in on the medium-weight finish. Drink n...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A delicious blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 30% Merlot, and a whopping 20% Petit Verdot, this estate continues to over-perform its humble pedigree. The 2007 reveals dense, sm...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2005 Pure Evil Chardonnay spent some time in French oak. It is light gold-colored with an attractive perfume of butterscotch, spice box, baked apple, and poached pear, mor...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Evil Cabernet Sauvignon saw 25% of the wine aged in French oak. It reveals a fragrant bouquet of cedar and black cur...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Bitch Grenache is sourced from 40- to 60-year-old vines from the Ebenezer sub-region of the Barossa. With the price of Cotes du Rhone soaring due to the weak dollar, I am hard...

John Sweeney: 92% merlot and 8% cabernet franc. Situated in Lugon, near Fronsac; owned by the dynamic Jean-Philippe Janoueix (of La Confession and La Croix St. Georges). A 55-hectare proper...

Wine Enthusiast: In style, Coutale doesn't make many concessions to Malbec tannins. What you get is an impressively structured, firmly tannic wine, packed also with black fruits. The solid str...

Wine Spectator: This jammy red shows layers of game and baking spice flavors to the ripe cassis and kirsch notes, which linger with a floral aftertaste. Drink now. -NW

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Produced from yields of 20 hectoliters per hectare (14% natural alcohol), this 2008 reveals surprisingly high acids as well as a tart, repressed personality. Medium-bodied wit...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Fume Blanc La Petite Etoile, from a vineyard in the Russian River, shows the influence of the site, the presence of 30% Sauvignon Musque and aging in French oak barre...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Bodegas Botani's 2010 Botani is made from 100% Moscatel de Alejandria sourced from old vines. The wine is fermented in stainless steel (60%) and wood puncheons (40%) with 5 mo...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (70% treixadura, 9% each godello and loureira, 7% torrontes and 5% albarino): Bright gold. An explosively perfumed bouquet evokes fresh melon and apricot, with lively minera...

Wine Spectator: This has a solid frame, with graphite and roasted cedar holding the core of steeped plum and currant fruit together. A loam hint chimes in on the medium-weight finish. Drink n...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: I know some readers will find it hard to believe, but the 2011 Nostre Pais Blanc's aromas and rich, honeyed, full-bodied texture reminded me of the famous white Chateauneuf du...

Jancis Robinson: Intense aroma but there's as much citrus as floral and grapey. Very attractive nose, managing both intensity and delicacy. Same is true of the palate and it is nicely and surp...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow. High-pitched aromas of lime, lemongrass, quinine and chalk dust, with a pear skin nuance in the background. Fleshy and smooth on entry, then firmer in the mid-...

Wine Spectator: A bright, almost chiseled style, offering fresh-cut pineapple, quince and candied Meyer lemon flavors, with a long, floral-filled finish. Seriously long, with lovely lacy deta...

Wine Spectator: Nice, ripe, saturated feel, with lots of cassis and crushed plum fruit coursing along, and mouthwatering spice and graphite kicking in on the finish. Very tasty.-J.M.