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: Dark and dense, with a juicy feel to the very ripe cherry, plum and exotic spice flavors. A flash of roasted red pepper adds interest to the finish. Drink now through 2016. -H...

About this Wine: The name 'Reiver' is taken from the border raiders of the Anglo-Scot borders. Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the border country was ravaged by lawless Reiver...

Wine Spectator: Thick with black cherry and blackberry fruit, finishing with a touch of exotic spices. Has a bit more refinement than most big Shirazes. Drink now through 2008. 1,800 cases ma...

Wine Spectator: Exotic and bold, yet retains an underlying elegance. Offers delicate strawberry and yeasty almond aromas and mature but lively cherry, red apple and spicy vanilla flavors. Dri...

Wine Spectator: An elegant white that's packed with slate, vanilla, lime and apple aromas and flavors. A touch reduced in aroma, but lively and intense, with a lip-smacking finish. Best from ...

Wine Spectator: Lots of lemon curd and vanilla character, with hints of spices. Full-bodied, sweet and very fresh, with a spicy, honey aftertaste. A beautifully balanced Sauternes. Spicy and ...

Wine Spectator: Dried citrus fruit and apple crumble aromas follow through to a full, thick and intense palate, with loads of lemon curd and apple skin character. Medium sweet. Feels almost c...

Wine Spectator: Exotically perfumed violet and rose petals burst on your palate, accompanied by dried apricot, lemon and honey flavors. Gorgeous and subtle, glowing on the finish.

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Crushed wild raspberry, wild herbs and an exotic suggestion of peach nectar on the nose. Juicy, tight and delicate, with a strong acidity and lovely floral perf...

About this Wine: Grape variety: Chardonnay
Exposure: South South-East  Right Bank  
Soil: Kimmeridgian limestone  
Age of the vines: Around 15  years
Grape ha...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (16.3% alcohol): Glass-staining ruby. Heady, exotically perfumed bouquet of dark fruit liqueur, incense and candied flowers, with notes of vanilla, clove and cocoa emerging wi...

Wine Spectator: Lots of melon, almond, fig and persimmon flavors, with an oily palate that oozes fruit and minerality. Powerful, with a long, oily finish, this still displays a lacy aspect an...

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: Quite high-pitched now, with lots of green plum and green almond notes laced with bright honeysuckle and heather. The background shows more lemon shortbread, grapefruit pâte d...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and juicy, sporting cherry, raspberry, rose and spice aromas and flavors, all playing out on the elegant frame. This is a delicate style, favoring finesse over power. Sti...

About this Wine: "This estate's most renowned offering is their old vine Shiraz (90+ year old vines) called The Dead Arm. The unfined/unfiltered 1999 The Dead Arm Shiraz (2,000 cases) was aged...

Burghound: A very ripe, indeed even exotic nose with the hallmark spiciness of a classic Genevrières introduces rich, minerally and attractively detailed middle weight flavors that are d...

About this Wine: Riesling is the prized grape of Alsace and also holds a special place at Domaine Weinbach. The domain's Rieslings have a fine and delicate fruitiness, tend to be racy, nervy, ...

Wine Enthusiast: From Tuscany's celebrated Frescobaldi wine family, Brunello Castelgiocondo opens with dark, inky concentration and bold aromas of pressed rose, black cherry, exotic spice, lea...