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...

Wine Spectator: Refined and creamy, with delicate acidity that finds fine balance with the layers of poached apple and pear, lemon cake, ground ginger, smoke and almond cream flavors. Very el...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright medium red. Expressive aromas of cherry, marzipan, menthol, leather, flowers and spices. Supple and pliant on the palate, offering moderate delineation but lovel...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape (65% Grenache and the rest Syrah, Mourvedre and Cinsault) is a beauty. Aged completely in foudre, it reveals classic Provencal notes of garrigue, ...

Wine Spectator: A ripe, fleshy style, with lots of fig and mulled blackberry and blueberry fruit. Good toast and ganache notes thread this together, with a muscular feel on the finish. An ove...

Wine Spectator: A hint of yeasty bread dough accents flavors of pippin apple, smoke, Meyer lemon and stony mineral. Firm and focused, with a raw almond note on the moderate finish. Drink now ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium-deep red. Knockout nose combines raspberry, smoke, spices and loamy soil tones. Fat, sweet, sexy and rich, but with ripe, harmonious acidity giving shape to the ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium red. Spicy raspberry and a sweet hint of chocolate on the nose. Spicy and tight, with lovely acid cut and energy to the crunchy red fruit flavors. Finishes with...

About this Wine: 1,12 ha of 37 ha (principle Premier Cru left bank). Clay-lime topsoil. Highly typical of Chablis with a good aging potential and a great finesse.

Characteristics of the...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright medium red. Reticent aromas of redcurrant, tobacco and dusty spices. Supple, spicy, round and deep, with very good stuffing and structure and impressive medicinal res...

Wine Spectator: A bright, ripe style, with very fresh crushed plum, raspberry and blackberry fruit wrapped in silky tannins and laced with hints of anise and black tea. The rounded finish has...

Wine & Spirits: A rich and delicious New World pinot, this wine's high notes of strawberry broaden out into darker flavors of cherry and oak. It feels firm and balanced, transparent despite i...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This lighter-styled, but complex, finely tuned effort reveals notes of cedar, dried herbs, spice, smoke, sweet cherry and cur...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright red. Spice-accented aromas of raspberry and cherry-vanilla show a ripe quality and pick up a smoky note with air. Lush and expansive on the palate, offering pungent r...

Wine Spectator: Plump and enticing, with a mouthwatering anise note that pulls you in quickly before delivering waves of blueberry, açaí berry and plum fruit, followed by bouncy spice and flo...

Wine Spectator: This is loaded, with layers of gorgeous plum sauce, linzer torte and blackberry fruit melding beautifully with charcoal, spice and anise. The long, dark finish has some power ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Auxey-Duresses 1er Cru is a bit darker, stonier and more mineral than the villages. Layers of black fruit, spices and licorice wrap around the palate in this gorgeous...

About this Wine: The vineyard is named after Ronni and Bernard's granddaughter Kiana, which is Hawaiian for goddess. The vines were planted in 1996 and 1997 using new Dijon clonal material Pin...

Wine Spectator: Smooth and refined, this is rich with cherry, smoke and spice flavors that push through a veil of scratchy tannins and linger on the finish. Best from 2014 through 2018. -HS

Wine Spectator: Distinctive, featuring smoke, mineral, quince, pineapple and quinine aromas and flavors matched to a dense, but not thick, texture. Though powerful and full-bodied, this is mo...