Burghound: A moderately earthy nose also displays hints of stone and underbrush on the ripe dark berry fruit suffused aromas. There is good freshness and vibrancy to the solidly well-det...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Jermann's 2009 Red Angel opens with dark, mysterious hints of tobacco, dark cherries, earthiness and incense. The wine fleshes out nicely on the mid-palate and finish as it co...

About this Wine: Syrah (40%) and Grenache (60%)
Average age of vines: 20 - 35 years old

Wine Spectator: Solid, if a bit chunky, with cocoa and ganache coating a core of black currant and blackberry fruit that hangs through the muscular finish, where a warm paving stone note ring...

About this Wine: Soil: clay and chalk, with characteristically rounded, huge stones.

Blend: Grenache is the dominant grape, followed by Syrah and Cinsault.

Wine Spectator: Plump and fleshy, with delicious plum, fig and blackberry flavors mixed together, coated gently with spice and black tea notes. The long, licorice edge on the finish has a nic...

Burghound: Outstanding-This offers a step up in aromatic complexity with a layered and attractively pure and ripe red pinot fruit nose that is liberally laced with stone and earth touche...

Wine Spectator: Plenty of violet, berry and vanilla in this red. Medium- to full-bodied, with well-integrated tannins and a licorice aftertaste. I like this as much as the 2000. Best after 20...

Rhone Report, The: A rich, substantial, and serious red, the 2009 Michel Gassier Costières-de-Nîmes Lou Coucardie is a blend of 60% Mourvèdre, 30% Grenache, and 10% Syrah that was aged for close...

Wine Spectator: A ripe, solid version, with mulled dark currant and fig fruit wrapped with toasted anise, ganache and pastis notes. There's a racy feel on the finish, with a twinge of chalk a...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep red. Complex, vaguely smoky aromas of black raspberry, cherry, black tea and sassafras. Youthfully taut on entry but turns suave and silky in the middle, showing good i...

Burghound: A very fresh and rather woodsy nose of forest floor, floral and wild red berry aromas merges into relatively refined flavors that possess a detailed and earthy finish that is ...

About this Wine: fashioned by winemaker Kim Johnston from vineyards owned by the Longbottom family

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2004 Cotes du Roussillon Clos del Rey is 80% Carignan (the rest, again, Grenache) and even more darkly-hued in flavor than its 2006 counterpart. Roasted meats, toasted nut...

Wine Spectator: Solidly built, with thickly layered fig, blueberry and açaí berry flavors pumping along, supported by still-chewy ganache and tobacco notes. An accent of roasted apple wood dr...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2008 Brozal is a field blend of 80% Tempranillo, 10% Graciano, and 10% Garnacha aged for 10 months in 50% new French oak. Deep crimson-colored, it offers up aromas of damp...

Wine Spectator: This has a brambly, chewy feel, with dark currant and steeped fig notes allied to a smoldering tobacco edge on the finish. Pleasantly rustic, boosted by the oomph of the vinta...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Medium red. Wild, musky aromas of smoke, leather and tobacco, with red fruits in the deep background. Then surprisingly tight and chewy in the mouth, in a distinctly masculi...

Wine Front: Opens a little stinky and charred but there's a good amount of fleshy cherry and plum fruit along with Hunter earth and some vanilla oak. Appropriately firm, but fine tannin, ...

Burghound: A lightly spiced nose of fresh red berry fruit aromas that carry earth and underbrush notes that merge into light to barely medium weight flavors that possess good detail on t...