Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light, bright yellow-gold. Exotically perfumed nose offers passion fruit, pear skin and tangerine, with complicating notes of jasmine and quinine. Seamless, silky and pure, w...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow. Exotic, heady aromas of dried pit fruits, jasmine, marzipan and candied citrus peel, with a bright mineral overtone. Juicy and expansive on entry, then more ta...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow. Exotic, heady aromas of dried pit fruits, jasmine, marzipan and candied citrus peel, with a bright mineral overtone. Juicy and expansive on entry, then more ta...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (this and the following wines are from the Moine-Hudelot vineyards that Patrick Landanger purchased in 2008): Dark red. Black raspberry and mocha aromas show less thrust tha...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Very dark ruby-red. The black fruit and chocolate aromas show an almost liqueur-like ripeness. Dense, concentrated and sweet, with a sappy quality to the black fruit flavors...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good deep red. Very reduced aromas of black raspberry, licorice and game. Rich, smoky and very fine-grained, with impressive concentration and density to its dark fruit flav...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good red-ruby. Black raspberry, smoke and a whiff of exotic fruits on the nose. Silky and fine-grained, with a lush texture given clarity and lift by nicely integrated acidi...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (from low-yielding old vines): Full ruby-red. Slightly reduced aromas of blackberry, raspberry and game, with a high-pitched suggestion of cassis leaf. Silky, sappy and bro...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Wild aromas of blackberry, chocolate and meat are considerably less expressive today than those of the Bressandes. Broad and large-scaled but backward, show...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Primary aromas of red and dark berries, with a subtle floral quality. Bright and juicy in the mouth, offering open-knit black raspberry and blueberry flavor...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Insiders and shrewd consumers have long realized that the 30,000-bottle Syrah La Rosine Vin de Pays cuvee is a great bargain. The 2011 is a 100% Syrah from the steep hillsides...

Wine Enthusiast: A wine that has density, structure and firm tannins, with touches of wood. At this stage, it is solid and impressive; and the tannins draw the great fresh fruit into the heart...

Wine Enthusiast: A wine that has density, structure and firm tannins, with touches of wood. At this stage, it is solid and impressive; and the tannins draw the great fresh fruit into the heart...

Wine Spectator: Combines both silky texture and good tension, with a light chalky thread running through the middle of the almost plush plum and blackberry fruit. There's a bright cassis bush...

Wine Spectator: Combines both silky texture and good tension, with a light chalky thread running through the middle of the almost plush plum and blackberry fruit. There's a bright cassis bush...

Wine Spectator: Combines both silky texture and good tension, with a light chalky thread running through the middle of the almost plush plum and blackberry fruit. There's a bright cassis bush...

Wine Spectator: This is nicely packed for the vintage, with flavors of apple wood, cherry preserves and sandalwood laced with black tea and plum notes on the finish. A step up in range and de...

Wine Spectator: This is nicely packed for the vintage, with flavors of apple wood, cherry preserves and sandalwood laced with black tea and plum notes on the finish. A step up in range and de...

Wine Spectator: This is nicely packed for the vintage, with flavors of apple wood, cherry preserves and sandalwood laced with black tea and plum notes on the finish. A step up in range and de...