About this Wine: In 1886, high in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the Monte Bello estate vineyard was planted, and the winery constructed. A first vintage from the young vines followed in 1892. Duri...

About this Wine: "This fine, top drawer, Rothschild owned estate has produced a blockbuster '89 with an intensly perfumed nose, luxuriously rich palate and the ability to age for decades. A wi...

About this Wine: "This fine, top drawer, Rothschild owned estate has produced a blockbuster '89 with an intensly perfumed nose, luxuriously rich palate and the ability to age for decades. A wi...

About this Wine: "This fine, top drawer, Rothschild owned estate has produced a blockbuster '89 with an intensly perfumed nose, luxuriously rich palate and the ability to age for decades. A wi...

About this Wine: "This fine, top drawer, Rothschild owned estate has produced a blockbuster '89 with an intensly perfumed nose, luxuriously rich palate and the ability to age for decades. A wi...

Wine Spectator: A sleek, rich, elegant style, with a complex array of anise, black cherry, flashy mocha-scented oak, currant and coffee, finishing with a long, complex aftertaste. Drink now t...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright medium red. Medicinal red fruits and a hint of menthol on the nose. Sweet, dense and sappy on the palate, with urgent, soil-driven flavors of raspberry, pepper, spice...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright, deep red. Highly perfumed aromas of raspberry, cocoa powder, mint and cumin. At once sweet and sharply delineated, with a distinctly high pitch and a light touch to ...

Wine Spectator: A fleshy, inviting style, with lots of crushed fig and steeped blackberry fruit woven with warmed cocoa and pain d'épices, all backed by a distinctly racy graphite note. Stays...

Wine Spectator: A sensational La Tâche that's as good as I remember upon release. Shows a suppleness in the tannins without compromising the compact mineral, wet earth and ironlike flavors th...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Pommard Argilliers is a delicate, mid-weight wine laced with perfumed red fruit, mint and flowers. This shows lovely freshness and brightness in a feminine style of P...

Burghound: A highly expressive nose of liqueur of plum and purple fruits slides gracefully into rich, full-bodied and serious flavors yet the mouth feel is really quite fine. There is go...

Burghound: A ripe and expressive nose mixes red and blue pinot fruit liqueur with violet and rose petal nuances. There is excellent size, weight and volume to the intense and powerful fl...

Burghound: This is very Gevrey with the distinctly animale hints to the cool earth-inflected aromas that include cassis, plum and black berry. The exceptionally rich, round and suave med...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Even deeper-colored with more purple hues, the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve is composed of 70% Grenache, 20% Syrah and 10% Cinsault from nearly 70-year-old vines. This bri...

About this Wine: "In 1965, the Marquis Mario Incisa della Rocchetta planted two more vineyards comprised of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc; the new "Sassicaia" vineyard was situated app...

Wine Spectator: There's great purity to the black cherry and black currant flavors in this red, with support from tobacco and iron notes, along with a hint of chocolate as this winds down. We...

About this Wine: Barolo Cannubi Boschis is the flagship wine and is the one that earned Luciano his early success, being one of the first Italian wines to earn 100 points from the noted critic...

About this Wine:  Barolo Le Vigne is often a dark and impenetrable wine in its youth, where the tannins and structure from the Monforte vineyard sites make the wine less approachable. Wit...

About this Wine:  Barolo Le Vigne is often a dark and impenetrable wine in its youth, where the tannins and structure from the Monforte vineyard sites make the wine less approachable. Wit...