Wine Spectator: Some good berry and dark chocolate aromas and flavors, with a round texture and a clean finish. Good quality for the vintage.

Wine Spectator: Blackberry aromas, with dark chocolate and mineral. Full and dense, with lovely fruit and a long, silky finish. Balanced and pretty. Best from 2011 through 2014. 3,415 cases m...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: In total contrast, the 2009 Cotes du Rhone Coudoulet red represents the essence of Provence in its notes of ground pepper, new saddle leather, lavender, kirsch, garrigue, and ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Peach, honey, menthol and stone on the nose. Rich and fairly intense, with a slightly candied quality to the honey and peach flavors. This may be a bit tired today owing to th...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A luxury proprietary blend of Rhone Ranger varietals, the 2004 Esprit de Beaucastel blanc is composed of 65% Roussanne, 30% Grenache, and 5% Picpoul. Tipping the scales at nea...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Beso de Dante is a blend of 50% Malbec, 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 10% Cabernet Franc aged for 18 months in 70% new French oak before bottling without fining or filt...

Wine Spectator: A slightly high-toned, tangy style, with lots of tobacco, pepper, garrigue and mulled red cherry and currant fruit notes laced with a pleasantly stemmy streak that lends some...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Cabernet Sauvignon (magnum) offers up dark red fruit, roasted coffee beans, grilled herbs and licorice in a mid-weight, elegant style. Soft tannins inform the soft, p...

Wine Spectator: This has a distinctive apple wood and mesquite mix up front, with racy linzer torte and cherry pit notes leading the way for extra plum and cassis flavors. Toasted wood and sp...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque ruby. Smoke-accented dark berry aromas are complicated by violet, cured meat and anise nuances. Offers sweet blackberry and cassis flavors, with suggestions of candie...

Wine Spectator: Delicate as a feather, with lovely strawberry blossom aromas and rich but elegant flavors of raspberry, white chocolate and cinnamon spice that finish with a crisp minerality....

Wine Spectator: Complex floral and wild berry scents turn taut and tannic, leading to a stemmy edge that provides a firm backbone, with a slightly clipped finish. Best from 2013 through 2019....

Wine Spectator: Dark, but with solid drive all along the way, as dark boysenberry, linzer torte and blackberry fruit courses along, held together by a prominent graphite spine. Long finish is...

Wine Spectator: This is dark but racy and driven, with a gorgeous Turkish coffee note giving way to flavors of roasted fig, blackberry paste and baker's chocolate. Polished and seamless throu...

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: "Highly Recommended" - A firm, dry version, dense with cherry, blackberry, tobacco and mineral aromas and flavors. Precise and vibrant, this cruises through the long aftertast...

James Suckling: A beautiful white, with lemon curd and apple tar character. Medium to-full body, with bright acidity and a clean finish. Limey sherbet. Hints of apple cream on the finish. Sc...

John Gilman: The 2009 Gravains is cut from the riper side of the Pavelot ledger this year and really comes across as an exotic and exuberant 1990-like wine. The nose is a blend of black ra...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2008 La Confession is a sleeper of the vintage. Super successful, this spicy wine exhibits some toasty oak and loads of licorice, espresso roast, blackberry and cassis. A ...

Wine Spectator: This is alluring, with warm ganache and black tea notes leading the way for velvety-textured fig sauce, plum and crushed blackberry fruit. The long finish is filled with licor...