Wine Spectator: This is very ripe, verging on raisin. Full-bodied, with chewy tannins and a lot of dried fruits on the palate, like fruitcake. Slightly overdone, but still likeable for its ch...

Wine Enthusiast: From Tuscany's celebrated Frescobaldi wine family, Brunello Castelgiocondo opens with dark, inky concentration and bold aromas of pressed rose, black cherry, exotic spice, lea...

About this Wine: First produced in 1979, the masterpiece of Castellare. Twice named in the Wine Spectator Top 100, again and again three glasses and five bunches, it has shown the grandeur o...

Wine Spectator: This wine shows an incredible concentration of fruit, with loads of berries and spices on the nose. Full-bodied, with soft and silky tannins and lots of smoky character. Goes ...

Wine Enthusiast: Black cherry, plum, smoke, bacon, leather and a drying touch of crushed mineral appear on the nose. This is a concentrated and rich Brunello with a bold, slightly sweet-smelli...

Wine Spectator: Dense yet supple, with gorgeous blackberry, raspberry and plum skin notes revealing layers of wild sage, cured olive, espresso and spice. Harmonious, with fine tannins adding ...

Wine Enthusiast: Here is textbook Barolo with long, fine tannins and elegant aromas of small berry fruit, mesquite wood, tar and black licorice. The wine also offers warm earthy notes and a fr...

Wine Spectator: Pure Caymus, only on a slightly muted scale. The currant, plum, dried cherry, anise and spicy flavors are neatly layered, and the texture and tannins are smooth and polished. ...

Wine Spectator: Wow. This '95 Special Selection is a classic. Amazingly complex, it displays a wide range of flavors--including currant, wild berry, herb, sage, coffee and tobacco--gains in n...

Wine Spectator: Ripe, rich and complex, with layers of juicy plum, blackberry, anise, coffee and wild berry. Turns supple, with a sense of elegance and finesse. Firms up on the finish, where ...

Wine Spectator: A seductive style that’s openly fruity, showing supple plum and black cherry notes, with floral scents and spices, turning creamy and gaining a mocha-espresso-vanilla scent ...

Wine Spectator: Boasting menthol and eucalyptus-tinged cherry and plum aromas and flavors, this red is broad and well-balanced in its structure, with fine length. Approachable now, but better...

Wine Spectator: Rich, with oak spice and chocolate accents shading the cherry, plum and tobacco flavors. Tightly wound, displaying full tannins on the finish. Well-balanced, this needs time...

Wine Enthusiast: "Cellar Selection" - Thanks to its dense clay soils, the Brunate cru delivers wines with high color saturation and aromatic caliber. This Barolo offers layers of black fruit, ...

Wine Spectator: Big, grapey red, yet refined and polished in texture. Medium- to full-bodied, with fine tannins and a fruity finish. Better than '00? -JS

Wine Spectator: Bright and ripe, with mouthfilling linzer torte and blackberry preserves pushed by black tea and toasty spice. This has the racy grip of the vintage, which builds steadily thr...

Wine Spectator: This white is intense in aroma, firm in structure and complex in flavor. Lemon zest, yellow plum and floral notes build around a core of mineral as it develops and changes acr...

Wine Spectator: This white is intense in aroma, firm in structure and complex in flavor. Lemon zest, yellow plum and floral notes build around a core of mineral as it develops and changes acr...

Wine Spectator: Polished, this is coated with ambitious mocha-infused toast, but the core of plum and boysenberry is honest and the dense finish of loam and cocoa is integrated and long. Drin...

Wine Spectator: Polished, this is coated with ambitious mocha-infused toast, but the core of plum and boysenberry is honest and the dense finish of loam and cocoa is integrated and long. Drin...