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...

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...

Wine Spectator: A seductive style that's intense, rich and layered, with tiers of blackberry, wild berry and raspberry, ending with firm tannins and melted black licorice. Grenache, Syrah and...

Wine Spectator: Supple, with a green olive note weaving through the sturdy blackberry and tar flavors. Persists nicely on the solid finish against a mild grip of tannin. Drink now through 201...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. A complex bouquet offers raspberry, cherry compote, potpourri and spice cake. Deeper, darker fruits on the palate, along with suave notes of rose pastille and...

Wine Spectator: Lithe and silvery, showing light toast, pencil shaving and grapefruit notes backed by a firm structure. It's well balanced, with moderate length. Drink now. 500 cases imported...

About this Wine: In 1990, Maté Brajkovich reworked the land at Kumeu River and planted a new vineyard of Chardonnay on the site of the family's original vineyard, purchased in 1944. The fi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Poesia has a more open nose than the 2005, with a crisp blackberry, raspberry leaf, mulberry and crushed violets-scented bouquet that gathers momentum with aeration. ...

John Gilman: The Bressandes was the very last wine to finish its malolactic in 2008 in the Pavelot cellars, and yet the wine was showing very well indeed in November. The bouquet is deep, ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Fresh plum and plum distillate tinged with ginger and white pepper pungently scent the Pavelot 2008 Savigny-les-Beaune Gravains, and these are allied on a bright, lean, yet ph...

About this Wine: St Hallett Wines sources the shiraz fruit for this wine from throughout the Barossa, from shiraz vineyards ranging in age from 10 years to some that are at least 80 years ...

About this Wine: From soils of gravel and sand, the wines of Chateau Siran are typical of the Margaux region's great growths. Powerful yet refined, the perfect balance of tannins, fruit and ac...

Wine Enthusiast: Imagine the soft, smooth texture of a fine Merlot. Then combine it with the briary, peppery flavors of a Sonoma Zinfandel. That's what you get in this dry, complex young wine....

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

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

Burghound: Residual fermentation aromas dominate the nose but the seductively textured flavors are clean and bright. There is solid mid-palate concentration to the citrusy, complex, bala...

Wine Spectator: Bright and jazzy, a lively mouthful of red berry, beet and spice aromas and flavors that remain zippy through the polished finish. Drink now through 2014. 200 cases imported. ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The multi-award winning 2008 Ironclad has a tight, leafy nose that unfurls in the glass to reveal blackberry, raspberry leaf, a touch of fresh fig and boysenberry jam. The pal...

Wine Enthusiast: Man O’ War’s 2008 Dreadnought put the winery on the map, and, although not quite as dramatic, the 2009 is a worthy successor. Aromas are lifted, peppery and cherry-filled, whi...

Burghound: A very attractive sense of freshness and immediacy characterize the pretty red berry fruit, stone and earth aromas that lead to ripe, delicious and solidly precise flavors tha...

Jancis Robinson: Complex mix of fruit and meat but also perfumed. Sweet fruit right through the palate, smooth, quite dense, harmonious already though there is a fine framework of tannin and a...