Wine Spectator: Dense, tannic and rustic red, sharing traits of many muscle-bound Napa Cabernets from the vintage. Requires chewing through extracted dark berry, cedar, roasted herb, woodsy o...

About this Wine: The Signature Cabernet Sauvignon has been the Chappellet flagship wine for more than three decades. It is a benchmark for the long-lived hillside wines of the Napa Valley; ful...

Wine Spectator: Combines richness with density and a tight core of pear, melon, green apple and light cedary oak flavors. This is raw and young, so give it time. The finish is complex, layere...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: From their oldest vines comes the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Vieilles Vignes, composed of 95% Grenache and the rest Mourvedre. This emerges from the high plateau of La Crau in t...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and rich, but sleek, racy and pure, with linzer torte, blackberry coulis and plum sauce notes all coursing along, lined with lavender, anise and graphite. This has the d...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A more long-term effort is the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape L'Envol (70% Mourvedre and 30% Grenache, aged in two- to three-year-old small barriques). A complex nose of sauteed mus...

Wine Spectator: A very lively, energetic style, with lots of brambly structure underneath the layers of fig, plum and blackberry fruit. Sweet tobacco, anise and spice notes fill in the finis...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Saturated ruby. Sexy dark berry and kirsch aromas, along with notes of potpourri, fruitcake and garrigue Broad, palate-staining blackberry and boysenberry flavors are framed ...

Wine Spectator: Quite muscular, with roasted tobacco leaf and charcoal notes up front, backed by a core of blackberry, cassis and plum sauce. Thick but velvety tannins cruise in on the finish...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Dark ruby. Aromas and flavors of dark fruit liqueur and candied licorice, with an exotic floral pastille quality gaining power with air. Broad and chewy in texture, with imp...

About this Wine: This traditional cuvee has a distinctive character with its lovely ripeness and richness of red fruit and spicy notes....

About this Wine: This traditional cuvee has a distinctive character with its lovely ripeness and richness of red fruit and spicy notes....

About this Wine: Syrah (40%) and Grenache (60%)
Average age of vines: 20 - 35 years old

Wine Spectator: This has a creamy melon frame, but the core of verbena, straw and tarragon is vibrant and lively, showing nice cut and a lingering quinine edge on the finish. Sémillon, Sauvig...

Wine Spectator: This is very well-built, with a range of apple wood and toasted spice notes framing the core of crushed plum, blackberry and cassis. Dusty structure give a long and grippy fee...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright purple. Heady red and dark berry preserve and floral aromas, with bright spice and mineral nuances adding vivacity. Concentrated but impressively energetic, offering ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright purple. Heady red and dark berry preserve and floral aromas, with bright spice and mineral nuances adding vivacity. Concentrated but impressively energetic, offering ...

Wine Spectator: Like a young Port, a powerful and concentrated wine for long-term aging. Very deep ruby color, with rich, spicy vanilla aromas, full body and lots of fruit flavors; tannic but...

Wine Spectator: Very muscular with currants, mineral and nutmeg character. Full-bodied and chewy, with a long and lively finish. Best after 2008. 29,165 cases made. –JS

Wine Spectator: Lightly firm plum skin and cherry pit notes weave through the core of plum sauce, currant and blackberry fruit, with a perfumy tobacco-tinged finish. A touch old-school. -JM