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

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

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

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

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The moderate ruby-colored 2008 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast reveals lush, rich, plum, and black cherry aromas and flavors with hints of roasted herbs and underbrush. With medium to...

Wine Spectator: A textbook version of the ripe, modern style, with a core of plum, linzer torte and black currant fruit backed by toasty spice and melted licorice note. A nice tug of roasted ...

Wine Spectator: This has a lovely transparency to its currant and plum fruit, shaded with tar and mineral notes, riding easily over buffed tannins into the long, expressive finish. Drink now ...

About this Wine: Soil type: Quaternary stony soil with deposits.
Parcels located on the lower terraced lands of the
Gigondas Appellation. Parcels located on the Plan de Dieu Appelation,...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Dark ruby. Deeply pitched dark berries and dried flowers on the nose, with a brighter red fruit quality emerging with air. Spicy raspberry and blackberry flavors coat the pala...

About this Wine: The northern sites of Kalimna and Ebenezer contribute juicy dark berry fruit and rich mocha flavours to the wine while western sites such as Seppeltsfield give Blackwell i...

Wine Spectator: Ultrarich and chocolaty, with layers of cedar, plum, currant and black cherry, revealing uncommon depth and tiers of flavor as it picks up coffee, toffee and anise. Finishes w...

Wine Spectator: Excellent balance, with supple, complex currant, plum, herb, dill and cedar notes that are focused and ripe. Loses a little intensity on the finish...

Wine Enthusiast: Aloof and tannic now. It's very dry, and those tannins lock in and cry out for something to melt them. It's best to decant this wine many hours in advance of drinking it, but ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ($35) Deep red. Pungent, mineral-driven aromas of raspberry, blackcurrant, potpourri and cured meat. Sweet and supple on the palate, offering vivid red and dark berry flavors,...

About this Wine: The Fay vineyard is the land where the story of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars began back in 1969 when Founder Warren Winiarski tasted Nathan Fay's 1968 homemade Cabernet. Warren kn...

Wine Spectator: ...currant, sage, herb and bay leaf flavors, along with hints of espresso. It also shows considerable tannic strength, finishing with a dry, minerally quality...

Wine Spectator: Complex flavors of earthy currant, herb, sage and dill ...on the palate. At this stage the tannins have a firm, dry, chewy edge. Decant. -JL

Wine Enthusiast: So smooth and lush, it's hard to keep from drinking the whole bottle. Shows wonderfully smooth, sweet blackberries, cherries and raspberries, balanced with supple tannins and ...

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