Wine Spectator: Has focus and consistent flesh from start to finish, with plum, raspberry and blackberry fruit supported by dusty tannins and backed by well-integrated spice on the finish.-J....

Wine Enthusiast: Barrel sample. This wine has fine tannins that are relatively soft, with good acidity and dryness. It's not powerful, but with its fine black currant flavor and ripe fruit it ...

Wine Spectator: Full-bodied and sweet, with lots of sliced citrus fruit and spicy bitter almond and honey on the finish. Powerful. -JS

About this Wine: Grape variety:Chardonnay
Exposure:  South South-East  Left Bank    
Soil: Kimmeridgian  limestone  
Age of the vines: 20 and 50&nbs...

Wine Spectator: This cuts a broad and creamy path, with lush blueberry fig and plum fruit all rolled together, backed by warm cocoa and anise notes. Toasty grip supports the finish but there'...

Wine Spectator: Dense and ripe, but sleek and tautly framed, with a nice iron edge to the plum sauce, blackberry preserve and tangy red currant fruit flavors. Long finish lets the minerality ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The Kesselstatt 2007 Kaseler Niesā_Tchen Riesling Grosses Gewachs is strikingly if austerely marked by impressions of caraway, lemon zest, toasted nuts, and crushed stone. As ...

About this Wine: "This fine, top drawer, Rothschild owned estate has produced a blockbuster '89 with an intensly perfumed nose, luxuriously rich palate and the ability to age for decades. A wi...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Ruby-red. Wild, highly perfumed aromas of black and blue fruits, anise and spices. Dense and creamy but fresh, bolstered by very good energy to the blackberry, mulberry and cr...

Wine Spectator: Shows dried pineapple, honey, pear, caramel and piecrust aromas. Full-bodied and very sweet, with spice, coconut, tropical fruit and apple tart flavors. Long and dense, yet li...

Wine Spectator: Very fresh, with a pure essence of raspberry and kirsch racing along, laced with an enticing red licorice note that drives through the finish. Rather direct, but well put toge...

Wine Spectator: Offers a lovely velvety feel from the start, with very fleshy blackberry, linzer torte and mulled plum fruit flavors woven with bittersweet cocoa, licorice snap and roasted al...

Wine Spectator: Bright and jazzy, with a smoky edge to the tart blackberry and cherry flavors, picking up a licorice note on the finish. Has complexity and balance, and cellaring should bring...

Wine Spectator: Polished and forward, with dense but approachable plum and boysenberry fruit studded with lots of sweet licorice. A well-roasted vanilla bean note glides through the finish. D...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The proprietors are extremely happy with what they were able to produce in 2000. Even though this vintage has a poor reputation, producers who only included the early-picked g...

About this Wine: "Produced by Bellevue, the is an excellent Bordeaux Blend. From the St Emilion Bordeaux area of France, this Bordeaux Blend features a Dry taste and Red color."

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright red-ruby. Blackberry and violet on the pure, vibrant nose. Denser and sweeter than the Aloxe-Corton, with crushed blackberry flavor framed by a firm edge of acid...

Burghound: A very ripe and notably earthy nose of cassis and black raspberry merges into round, rich and textured middle weight flavors that are very suave but have a sense that I can on...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright medium red. Expressive aromas of cherry, marzipan, menthol, leather, flowers and spices. Supple and pliant on the palate, offering moderate delineation but lovel...

Wine Spectator: This is nicely cloaked with charcoal and roasted apple wood, while the core of steeped fig, blackberry and black cherry paste notes sits in reserve. The well-defined finish is...