Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Deep, sweet, classic Clos de Tart aromas and flavors of dark raspberry, dried flowers, minerals and fresh violet and rose. Dense, round, superripe and compell...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Like many of the best wines from this vintage, the 1989 remains a big, muscular, virile, closed Chateauneuf boasting an impressive ruby/purple color displaying no signs of deg...

Wine Spectator: Very pretty, almost delicate, of medium body and medium concentration. The soft and supple tannins are sleek and easy to appreciate. It'll be hard to resist enjoying it on rel...

Wine Spectator: Lots of black currant, mineral, grilled herb, olive paste and bittersweet cocoa notes. A sinewy texture up front steadily puts on muscle and flesh through the back end, allowi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Readers will have to be exceedingly patient with the 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags' Leap District). A big, dark wine, the 2009 is one of the richest wines I have tasted from ...

Wine Spectator: A voluptuous Pomerol. Plenty of blackberry and cherry aromas, with hints of vanilla. Full-bodied, with loads of chocolate character, medium, fine tannins and a long finish. Be...

About this Wine: René Barbier creates his intensely concentrated wine from a blend of 40% Garnacha (from 80 year old vines), 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Syrah and 5% Pinot Noir, Mourvedre and ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Sexy aromas of black raspberry and candied rose, along with a strong Asian spice character. Deeply pitched red and dark berry preserve flavors are given an ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Very pale color. Orange and lemon pith, wet stone and a whiff of marzipan on the slightly reduced nose. Wonderfully creamy and fine-grained in the mouth, saturating the enti...

Wine Spectator: Though rich and luscious, this white is also complex, displaying apple, peach, lemon, spice and savory mineral flavors. There's a little oak that needs to be resolved, but thi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumees is an attractive wine laced with expressive fruit. It fills out nicely in the glass as the layers of fruit blossom and the wine gain...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chenevottes comes across as beautifully, layered, textured and supple. It possesses excellent freshness and overall harmony for the year. Whi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chassagne-Montrachet La Truffiere shows lovely tension and pure, lively minerality. This is one of the brighter more focused of the 2009s here, but there is plenty of...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Brunello di Montalcino is a big, bold wine imbued with wild cherries, earthiness, tar, smoke and grilled herbs. This shows more of the rustic side of Sangiovese in it...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: The nose is very ripe yet there is solid freshness and no sense of prune or stewed notes, indeed it's best described as extract of ripe pinot. The big, very concentrated, plum...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright medium red. Expressive aromas of redcurrant, menthol, truffley earth and spicy oak. Supple, sweet and deep, with a wonderfully silky texture but also excellent inner-...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Medium red. Red fruits and spices on the nose. Round, fleshy and sweet; a bit deeper in pitch than the village Volnay, and more saline and soil-driven. Good serious Volnay,...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Volnay comes across as delicate and perfumed in this vintage. Dark red fruit, crushed flowers and licorice come together as the wine finds its focus on the mid-palate...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep red. Briary raspberry, blueberry, mocha and menthol on the nose, lifted by peppery spices; a real essence of this grand cru. Then creamier and larger-scaled than the Cham...

Wine Spectator: Solid and chewy in texture, with firm tannins and layers of black cherry, mushroom and orange-peel flavor, getting really decadent on the long finish. Has a sense of grandeur,...