Wine Spectator: Elegant, polished, supple and complex, with pretty currant, cedar, anise, sage and tar notes. Turns firmly tannic. Drink now through 2008...

Wine Spectator: Very pretty red with berry, cherry character. Medium-bodied, with good fruit and a soft tannin structure. Well done and delicious...

Wine Spectator: Impressive. Beautiful plum, berry, tobacco, cedar and toasted oak aromas and flavors, medium body and tannins and a succulent finish. Drinkable now.

Wine Spectator: A gamy, herbaceous style, with spice, tea, currant and cedar notes, it's well-balanced, with a dash of dill on the finish. Firmly tannic, it's at a good drinking stage.--Calif...

Wine Spectator: Quite rich, balanced and still young. Sweet cherry and light cedar aromas give way to firm, spicy flavors accented by licorice notes.--Ducru-Beaucaillou vertical. Drink now th...

Wine Spectator: A smooth mix of ripe plum and cassis flavors that mix well with spice, cedar, cocoa and herb notes. Gains momentum on the finish. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Malbec. Drink ...

Wine Spectator: Medium-weight, with attractive cedar, herb, and currant notes, it's an elegant style with a supple texture. Mildly tannic...

Wine Spectator: This wine exhibits a vibrant core of ripe, juicy plum and black cherry fruit framed by tight cedary oak and wood flavors. The tannins are ripe and firm on the finish. A step u...

Wine Spectator: This delivers a good, direct beam of cassis and blackberry fruit, with licorice and warm stone notes framing the finish. Rather direct but nicely put together. Drink now throu...

Wine Spectator: Clean, pure and complex, with a range of enticing flavors that echo spice, ripe apple and melon, with a light cedary edge. Drink now through 2015. -JL

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good ruby-red. Floral aromas of redcurrant, tobacco and nutty oak. Lush, sweet flavors of boysenberry and cedar; rather full in the mouth. Finishes with sweet, ripe tannins. T...

Wine Spectator: Showing a mix of loamy earth, stewed berry, mineral, graphite and cedar notes, this is full-bodied, intense, balanced and focused. Young and backward, this one may surprise. B...

Wine Spectator: Intense and savory, with firm, dense, even chewy dried berry, mineral and forest floor flavors. This is drying and cedary, yet with enough complexity and dimension to merit sh...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good deep red. Black raspberry, sassafras, road tar and spicy oak on the nose. Sweet berry fruit shows an almost liqueur-like creaminess, but a peppery element and good underl...

Wine Spectator: Complex, with tasty currant, black cherry, mocha, vanilla and nutmeg flavors that are rich and deep, showing concentration and focus...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This is an up and coming Pauillac estate that is making better and better wines. Moreover, they remain realistically priced. This is a Medoc 1998 that is revealing more mid...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This is an up and coming Pauillac estate that is making better and better wines. Moreover, they remain realistically priced. This is a Medoc 1998 that is revealing more mid...

About this Wine: Te kahu means 'the cloak' in Te Reo Maori and refers to the mist that envelops the Giants Winery in the Tuki Tuki Valley. Legend has it that this mist was used to protect a my...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Deep garnet colored, the 2007 Grand Barossa Shiraz is composed of 95% Shiraz and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon and Grenache. Blackberry cordial and kirsch scented with underlying note...

Wine Spectator: A real achievement for the vintage, boasting plenty of fruit, tobacco and dark chocolate character. Full-bodied and velvety; impressive richness of ripe tannins. Better in 199...