Wine Spectator: Dense but fresh, with a saturated core of blackberry pâte de fruit, anise and plum sauce that races along with vibrant spice and graphite notes. The long finish shows cut and ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The estate's 2008 La Segreta Rosso offers up bold fruit, spices and sweet herbs in a big, rustic style. This hearty, tasty red is best enjoyed at the dinner table. La Segreta ...

Wine Spectator: A rich, full-bodied dessert-style red, with sweet plum pudding and chocolate mousse flavors, which linger on the finish. Grenache, Mourvèdre and Syrah. Drink now through 2014....

Wine Enthusiast: Break out the hors d'oeuvres for this tart young Pinot Grigio. It needs food to balance it out. The acid-backed flavors are savory, and include Meyer lemons, limes, lemongrass...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Calera's 2011 Pinot Noir Central Coast wafts from the glass with freshly cut flowers, sweet red berries and mint. This is a fairly laid-back vintage for the wine, with less of...

James Suckling: It's a little close on the nose but the palate shows a lovely liveliness. Notes of mandarines and apricots on the palate. Round and tense. Medium sweet.

Wine Spectator: A rounded, toasty frame caresses the medium-weight core of plum, fig and blackberry fruit. Stays fresh and open on the finish. Drink now. 5,500 cases made. -JM

Wine Spectator: Plush-textured and multi-layered, delivering a serious mouthful of blackberry, guava, cherry and black pepper flavors that persist into the expressive finish. Best from 2013 t...

Wine Spectator: Tasty, with plum cake, braised fig and mulled cherry notes all woven with a lacing of sweet tobacco. Rounded, open-knit finish. Shiraz, Cinsault, Cabernet Sauvignon, Grenache,...

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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...

Wine Spectator: Solid, with a racy iron and violet frame to the core of sleek red currant, cherry and damson plum fruit. Not big, but with nice cut on the finish. Drink now through 2014. –JM

About this Wine: Land: A plateau of limestone; bordering slopes with chalk and clay soils....

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Black fruits and licorice on the nose; a bit inkier and less expressive than the basic Clos des Andes. Then denser and deeper but less pliant in the mouth, wi...

Wine Spectator: Syrupy sweet, but not too rich, with lots of honey and spice flavors that persist appealingly on the long, delicately balanced finish...

Wine Spectator: Solid, with a very juicy core of lightly mulled plum and blackberry fruit, a polished apple wood note that runs along the edges and a solid, gravel-tinged finish. Sports nice ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Lamothe Guignard has a tightly wound bouquet with touches of lemon curd, spice, pear skin and light honey, good definition and freshness. The palate is fresh and taut...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Cotes du Rhone Trois Soeurs Rose is composed of two-thirds Grenache, one-fourth Carignan and the rest Cinsault from vines that average 60 years in age. It is a medium...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2004 Collioure Cosprons Levants (60% Syrah; 30% Mourvedre; 10% Grenache â_" grown with cuttings from Chave, Tempier and B...

Wine Spectator: A fresh, elegant style, with a lively mesquite and sanguine spine that cuts through the silk-textured damson plum, cherry and blackberry fruit. The long, mineral-tinged finish...