Wine Front: Opens a little stinky and charred but there's a good amount of fleshy cherry and plum fruit along with Hunter earth and some vanilla oak. Appropriately firm, but fine tannin, ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Fresh plum and plum distillate tinged with ginger and white pepper pungently scent the Pavelot 2008 Savigny-les-Beaune Gravains, and these are allied on a bright, lean, yet ph...

Wine Spectator: A ripe, aromatic style, this red is juicy with blackberry, floral, tomato and pear flavors that dance through the long, focused finish against fine tannins. Drink now through ...

About this Wine: Spring Grove Vineyards is a group of extremely small properties located in the Spring Grove District of San Benito County. Complex and elegant, this Pinot Noir offer...

Wine Spectator: Dense and grippy, this is a bit backward now, with a core of black currant, fig and roasted apple wood flavors. Yet despite the dark profile, there's still an overriding silky...

Wine Spectator: Prickly tannins and a tang of acidity play against blackberry and cedary spice flavors in this firm red, which is nicely filled out, finishing with persistence. Drink now thro...

Burghound: A very attractive sense of freshness and immediacy characterize the pretty red berry fruit, stone and earth aromas that lead to ripe, delicious and solidly precise flavors tha...

Wine Enthusiast: A fancy Chardonnay, whose 50% new French oak gives a delicious layer of buttered toast and vanilla, but is in keeping with the volume of the underlying wine. Made from grapes ...

Wine Enthusiast: Continuing its impressive series of wines, this red from Malartic-Lagravière has all the structure and density of the vintage, packed with plum and black currant fruits. The...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full medium red. Perfumed aromas of raspberry, flowers and minerals. Dense red fruit flavors display good sweetness and plenty of energy. The ripe tannins are thoroughly ...

About this Wine: Over the ages the Savigny-lès-Beaune vineyards have belonged to the Dukes of Burgundy, the clergy, the Knights of Malta, and local gentry. Les Marconnets is in a splendid loca...

Wine Spectator: A fresh, pure, silky style, with red currant, licorice and shiso leaf notes gliding over the long, supple, minerally finish. Textbook for the vintage, with the fruit and miner...

Wine Enthusiast: Vine Cliff consistently produces one of the best Chardonnay's in Napa Valley, and here's another one. The cool vintage gives it refreshing acidity, while the flavors are ripe ...

About this Wine: The northern sites of Kalimna and Ebenezer contribute juicy dark berry fruit and rich mocha flavours to the wine while western sites such as Seppeltsfield give Blackwell i...

Wine Spectator: This sings with spicy, creamy pear and lanolin flavors, finding restraint as the finish lingers enticingly. Cries out to accompany shellfish. Drink now through 2018. — H.S.

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow. High-pitched perfume of pineapple, lavender and dusty stone, complemented by spicy oak. Dry and elegantly styled, a bit Chablis-like in its saline lemon and cr...

Wine Enthusiast: Imagine the soft, smooth texture of a fine Merlot. Then combine it with the briary, peppery flavors of a Sonoma Zinfandel. That's what you get in this dry, complex young wine....

Wine Enthusiast: This is a strong Zinfandel. It takes over the mouth with a blast of ripe blackberry, cherry, anise, chocolate and spice. What it lacks in subtlety it more than makes up for in...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Slightly hazy medium red. Musky aromas of raspberry, coffee and smoke. Lush, silky and sweet, with velvety plum and earth flavors spreading out to saturate the palate. Seam...

Wine Spectator: An amped-up style, with dark, weighty, frankly toasty layers of blackberry, plum and currant fruit giving way to black licorice on the finish. Offers more raw power than fines...