Wine Spectator: Got patience? You'll need it to wait this brute out fully. A chunk of tar sits between you and the core of black currant, hoisin sauce and roasted Black Mission fig fruit flav...

Wine Spectator: This sports the ample, fleshy, powerful core of the vintage, with dark blue and black fruits, but has extra drive, with mouthwatering acidity and lots of minerality cutting th...

Wine Spectator: A solid, briary, grippy, tarry Pauillac, with a sappy edge to the kirsch, blackberry, plum skin and steeped fig notes, liberally laced with anise and tar. Shows good energy th...

Wine Spectator: This has a dense, almost loamy feel at the core, with smoldering bay and ganache notes leading to layers of fig preserves, blackberry coulis and steeped black currant fruit. T...

About this Wine: Dominus is made solely from grapes grown on the historic Napanook vineyard in Yountville, California.

Wine Spectator: A Pomerol of a different color, relying heavily on dense muscle and dark charcoal notes, with a core of fig, blackberry paste and blueberry reduction waiting in reserve. Very ...

Wine Spectator: Stunning and pure from the get-go, with intense cassis and blackberry fruit. Ultimately takes a slightly austere approach, with a wrought-iron structure driving along while pa...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ($155) Bright, pale yellow. Restrained aromas of stone fruits, clove, nuts and minerals. Fruitier and sweeter in the mouth than the Clavoillon, with enticing harmonious acidit...

About this Wine: 70% Cabernet franc, 20% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Sauvgnon, 4% Petit Verdot

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (from Clone 4) Good full ruby. Pure aromas of cassis, redcurrant and minerals, lifted by a peppery nuance. Dense, fat and large-scaled but quite succulent, with a smoky ripene...

Wine Enthusiast: New wood mint aromas give this wine its great polished feel. The tannins offer a counterpoint of richness here, firm and dense. The fruit takes a while to show through, then b...

Wine Spectator: Beautiful wine with blackberry, chocolate and floral aromas. Medium- to full-bodied, with silky tannins and a pretty finish. Refined and silky. Not a big Conseillante, but all...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: I had inserted this wine in a blind tasting. I did not know where it would appear, but I knew it would be in the tasting, and...

Wine Spectator: Rich and plush, deeply concentrated, with complex currant, coffee and cedar, and a twinge of stalky bell pepper and green bean. Finishes with tobacco notes and firm tannins. T...

Wine Spectator: Rich, concentrated and complex, it's also a bit earthy and reduced. The core flavors of currant, anise, leather, fresh-brewed coffee and sage are dense and multifaceted...

Wine Spectator: Distinctive, with atypical (for St.-Emilion) force and drive to the black currant, roasted cedar and maduro tobacco flavors, which are supported by a dense, loam-tinged struct...

Wine Spectator: This is lovely, with floral notes at first, which are then followed by pure, precise blueberry, plum and blackberry fruit aromas and flavors. Features a silky texture, fine ac...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Lemon, peach and clove on the nose. Ripe on entry, then a bit disjointed in the middle, showing some spiky acidity along with a lemon flavor complicated by a honeyed ripeness...

Wine Spectator: Tight and perhaps even less flashy than usual, it is slow to reveal its complex range of earthy, cedary currant and black cherry...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2011 L'Extravagant does not have an explosive nose like other vintages, but one that unfurls in the glass with gorgeous ripe kiwi fruit, dried honey and quince. The palate...