Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good ruby-red. Pure, elegant nose offers currant, tobacco, coffee, licorice and brown spices. Sweet, firm and aromatic, with ripe acids framing the flavors of currant, cherry,...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Very pale greenish-yellow color. Piquant aromas of gooseberry, lemon, grapefruit rind and pepper, complicated by green tropical fruits and lemongrass. Dense, supple and ripe...

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...

Wine Spectator: Remarkably complex and well-made, with a core of earthy currant, black cherry, beet root, anise, tobacco and cedary notes. Turns earthier on the finish, in a pleasing way, wit...

Wine Spectator: Rich and full of oak spice and apple pie flavors, with a touch of grapefruit. This is even a little tannic, leaving a pleasant astringency on the finish. Best from 2012 throug...

About this Wine: Torrontés is the signature white wine from Argentina. It dates from the first vineyards planted in the early 1800's.  Today, the variety enjoys high popularity with...

About this Wine: Location: Chateau Clerc-Milon is located in Pauillac, just between Chateau Mouton-Rothschild and Chateau Lafite-Rothschild. 69 acres producing 14,000 cases. Classificati...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Palate-staining plum and cherry dusted with cardamom and cinnamon in Chauvenet's 2008 Nuits-St.-Georges Les Charmottes marry the cut and vivacity typical of its vintage with c...

Wine Spectator: Notably ripe, plush and fleshy for the vintage, exhibiting ripe blackberry and plum flavors that are concentrated and well-focused, finishing with a nice burst of fruit flavor...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: One of the Medocs most successful 1978s, this wine has reached full maturity, but it reveals no signs of an early demise. The color is a dark ruby/garnet with only slight ambe...

Wine Spectator: Gorgeous aromas of blackberries, violets and currants lead to this full-bodied wine with velvety tannins. Lovely finish delivers a juicy berry aftertaste...

Wine Enthusiast: This epitomizes Dry Creek Valley Zinfandel. It's dry, briary and brambly, with wild berry, cola and crisped bacon flavors. It's incredibly spicy, offering everything from blac...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid purple. Blueberry, cherry and Asian spices on the highly perfumed nose. Sweet and energetic, offering intense black and blue fruit flavors that are lifted and sharpene...

Wine Enthusiast: A light, silky, elegant wine, dry and spicy, with rich acidity framing complex raspberry, cherry, cola and toast flavors. Ready now.

Wine Spectator: Straddling the line between road tar, spice and dried berry fruit, this is an intense, tight and concentrated red, full-bodied and dense. A young, compact wine that has a firm...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Palish red. Perfumed aromas of raspberry, cherry, coffee, spices, menthol and faded rose. Sweet and creamy but with an edge of acidity framing and carrying the attractive, m...

Wine Spectator: Nicely plush for the vintage, with tangy iron and white pepper notes melded into the damson plum and black cherry fruit. There's a lingering perfume on the finish. Drink now t...

Wine Spectator: A supple, polished, modern style, relying on creamy, mocha-tinged toast, gentle plum and blackberry fruit flavors before finishing with a lingering cocoa edge. Should stretch ...

Wine Spectator: Slightly high-toned, with floral, red cherry and red licorice notes laced with shaved vanilla bean and light tobacco shadings, followed by an elegant finish. Drink now through...

Wine Spectator: A minerally red, with a rich, meaty aroma and firm flavors of dark currant, wild plum, sage, spice and mocha. Interesting notes of underbrush chime in as well. Needs time. Xin...