Alex Shaw: Deep purple core with a lighter rim. Big and bold on the nose, with dark fruit complemented by notes of cedar, earth, minerality, and a touch of forest floor. The black frui...

Wine Spectator: An ambitious red, featuring toasty oak and spice notes to frame the deep layers of cassis, blackberry coulis and fig paste flavors, which expand with hints of maduro tobacco a...

Wine Spectator: A very pure, polished style, with an almost-rounded feel to the beam of cassis, dark plum and black cherry fruit, which gets support from graphite, dark olive and alder wood n...

Wine Spectator: Blackberry and milk chocolate aromas follow through to a medium body, with good fruit, delicate tannins and a fresh finish. -J.S.

About this Wine: fashioned by winemaker Kim Johnston from vineyards owned by the Longbottom family

Wine Spectator: Remarkably complex, with an intriguing array of cedary oak, tar, berry, currant and cherry flavors that gain depth and finesse on the finish...

Alex Lallos: Plum purple core with a garnet rim. The bouquet is modern, with aromas of cedar, vanilla, black cherry, boysenberry, and berry liqueur. Brambly on the palate with notes of fre...

Wine Spectator: Smooth and refined, this is rich with cherry, smoke and spice flavors that push through a veil of scratchy tannins and linger on the finish. Best from 2014 through 2018. -HS

About this Wine: The Snowden Ranch is located east of the Silverado Trail between Rutherford Hill Road and Taplin Road. The property is a quarter of a mile wide and a mile long. Elevations on ...

Wine Spectator: ...richly concentrated wine, with potent earth, blackberry, anise, sage and smoky tarry notes that fill out and keep a tight focus on a long, rich finish...

Wine Enthusiast: Dark and incredibly concentrated, with earth, black fruits, mint and exotic side notes. It's stout and tannic, but also rich and pure, with monster black fruit flavor and powe...

Wine Spectator: A plush texture carries rich flavors of brandied cherry, dark chocolate, cocoa and mountain herbs in this expressive red. The tannins are firm but well-integrated, and the fin...

Wine Spectator: A subtle, seductive style with understated plum and black cherry, touches of mineral and cedar. Gains richness and depth, ending with a burst of flavor. Drink now through 2020...

Wine Spectator: A very ripe, fleshy, gutsy style, with mouthfilling tar, espresso, braised fig and dark plum notes still waiting to meld fully. The broad, muscular finish has a nice briary ed...

About this Wine: Beginning with the 1962 vintage, The Signature wines of Yalumba have saluted the very best of the vintage. They also have acknowledged the skills and dedicated service of peop...

About this Wine: This wine will require 7-10 years of cellaring, then last for two decades thereafter.

About this Wine: Created in 2002, Quinta Sardonia is a joint project between star winemaker Peter Sisseck of Pingus (Ribera del Duero) and Jerome Bougnaud. Located just 400 meters from the...

About this Wine: The vineyard is named after Ronni and Bernard's granddaughter Kiana, which is Hawaiian for goddess. The vines were planted in 1996 and 1997 using new Dijon clonal material Pin...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This lighter-styled, but complex, finely tuned effort reveals notes of cedar, dried herbs, spice, smoke, sweet cherry and cur...

Wine Spectator: Plump and enticing, with a mouthwatering anise note that pulls you in quickly before delivering waves of blueberry, açaí berry and plum fruit, followed by bouncy spice and flo...