About this Wine: Fourchaume...

Wine Enthusiast: Barrel sample. This wine has fine tannins that are relatively soft, with good acidity and dryness. It's not powerful, but with its fine black currant flavor and ripe fruit it ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Pale yellow-green. High-pitched but reserved nose hints at apple, lemon and violet. Juicy and precise but youthfully tight, with lovely sharply defined lemon and stone flavors...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright, medium red. Black cherry, violet and a suggestion of almost metallic minerality on the nose, with hints of leather and game emerging with air. Moderately chewy ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby. Aromas of cherry compote, vanilla and smoky herbs. Broad, pliant red and dark fruit flavors show very good depth as well as energy, with a spicy, peppery nuance a...

About this Wine: This wine will require 7-10 years of cellaring, then last for two decades thereafter.

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: Ripe but very well-focused, with a lovely singed vanilla bean note guiding the delicious plum sauce, blackberry and cassis fruit. The long, pure, polished finish shows nicely ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Ruby-red. Wild, highly perfumed aromas of black and blue fruits, anise and spices. Dense and creamy but fresh, bolstered by very good energy to the blackberry, mulberry and cr...

Wine Spectator: Thick and spicy, with unctuous, still slightly raw-seeming layers of apricot, peach and fig. Ginger cream and green tea check in on the finish. Rather backward still, but ther...

Wine Spectator: Offers a density and lushness that belies the appellation, with a full, polished structure and deep plum, blackberry paste and steeped black cherry fruit flavors. The long, an...

Wine Spectator: Very fresh, with a pure essence of raspberry and kirsch racing along, laced with an enticing red licorice note that drives through the finish. Rather direct, but well put toge...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Suave nose offers blackberry, crushed stone and bitter chocolate. Dense, pliant and sweet, with a sappy concentration to the black fruit flavors. Finishes ...

Wine Spectator: A ripe, plush, modern style, with a ganache note leading the way for crushed plum, blackberry and currant pâte de fruit notes. Lots of briar and anise on the finish lends a gr...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The sample tasted blind during my main Sauternes tasting was a little out of sorts; however, a second and third encounter were much more promising. The nose is very pure, with...

Burghound: Here the expressive nose is slightly more elegant with the barest hint of wood framing cool and airy red pinot fruit that is liberally laced with Gevrey style earth that is al...

Wine Spectator: Offers a lovely velvety feel from the start, with very fleshy blackberry, linzer torte and mulled plum fruit flavors woven with bittersweet cocoa, licorice snap and roasted al...

Wine Spectator: A ripe, flashy style, with lots of ginger, mango, creamed papaya and peach notes and a long, creamy finish that lets a grilled hazelnut note linger. A touch shy on zip on the ...

Wine Spectator: Big and rich, but with a throwback feel to the gutsy bramble, tobacco and mulled plum flavors, all pushed by additional dark olive and roasted fig notes. Good cut on the finis...

Wine Spectator: Juicy red and black currant fruit mingles with tobacco, mineral and tar notes in this medium-weight Châteauneuf. Nice smoke and spice notes on the finish. Drink now through 20...