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...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Brunello di Montalcino is one of the more perfumed, vibrant wines to emerge from the southern reaches of Montalcino. Freshly cut flowers, minerals, licorice and juicy...

Wine Enthusiast: Talley produces some of the best Chardonnays on the Central Coast. Although this isn't one of their single-vineyard bottlings, it's a splendid wine, dry, crisp and silky. It s...

Wine Spectator: This is gorgeous, with wood spice and tobacco notes leading the way for a massive core of black Mission fig and warm currant preserve flavors. This has the opulent fruit of th...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright purple. Exotic spice and potpourri scents accent intense red and dark berries on the seductively perfumed nose. Sweet, expansive and energetic on the palate, offering...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Chambolle-Musigny (from tank) is big, fat, rich and implosive, yet never loses its sense of place. Layers of perfumed dark red fruit flesh out on the radiant finish. ...

About this Wine: "Taylor's finest and rarest wine, the very pinnacle of port. Only in a year when everything is perfect does Taylor's `declare' a vintage. With the company's reputation at stak...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The single-vineyard 2008 Cortona Syrah Migliara fleshes out beautifully in the glass with layers of dark red fruit that fill out the wine's broad shouldered frame nicely. The ...

Andy Frieden: Purple core with a deep garnet rim. Nose is suggestive of Bordeaux, with perfumed red and black fruit complemented by cherry blossom and underlying fresh earth and crushed roc...

Wine Spectator: Plush-textured and multi-layered, delivering a serious mouthful of blackberry, guava, cherry and black pepper flavors that persist into the expressive finish. Best from 2013 t...

Wine Spectator: Deftly balanced, with a rich, complex, sophisticated mix of spicy currant, fresh earth, blackberry and anise, it gracefully unfolds to reveal extra flavor dimensions. Deeply c...

About this Wine: This single vineyard wine was planted by Dave Powell in 1994 with cuttings off old RunRig vineyards.

Wine Spectator: Ripe and generous, offering a supple mouthful of cherry, black pepper, bacon and spice flavors that rocket through a layer of fine tannins. The spices, including cardamom and ...

About this Wine: This muscular wine has phenomenal density, dry vintage port-like concentration, and magnificent notes of smoke, blackberries, cassis, leather and coffee.

About this Wine: This wine is composed entirely of shiraz, harvested from the oldest, most revered vineyards in the Barossa Valley.  All parcels are vinified separately.  Fermentat...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Deep garnet colored, the 2006 The Laird offers a multi-faceted nose of ripe black berries, blueberry preserves and kirsch aromas with an underlying perfume of baking spices, l...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright, deep red. Medicinal red cherry, raspberry, spices and mint on the vibrant nose. Sweet and suave but at the same time penetrating in the style of the better 2010...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright, deep red. Medicinal red cherry, raspberry, spices and mint on the vibrant nose. Sweet and suave but at the same time penetrating in the style of the better 2010...

About this Wine: 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Franc

Wine Spectator: Wonderful aromas of tobacco, berry and currants. Full-bodied, with a solid core of fruit and vanilla character. Long and silky on the finish, with ripe tannins...