Wine Spectator: Racy, offering delicious dark bramble, linzer torte and blackberry notes, with a strong graphite edge coursing through the finish. Gains density and flesh on the finish, which...

Wine Spectator: Good, pure, caressing style, with a direct beam of cassis, lilac and toasted spice that stays rounded through the medium-weight finish, where a hint of loam peeks in. -J.M.

Wine Spectator: More flesh than grip, with mulled plum and blackberry fruit laid over graphite and cedar hints. There's a flash of tobacco, though the mulled fruit is the main feature. Drink ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow-gold. An intensely perfumed bouquet displays scents of yellow plum, nectarine and redcurrant, with suave spice cake and floral notes and slow-building minerality...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Barbaresco Manzola is a pretty, up-front wine laced with sweet red cherries, flowers, mint, cinnamon and licorice. With time in the glass, the wine opens up nicely. B...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Dark purple. Dark berries and spices on the highly perfumed nose. Spicy and focused on entry, then rich and broad in the middle, offering sweet black and blue fruit flavors ...

Wine Spectator: This displays a solid core of cassis, raspberry and blackberry coulis notes, framed by a rather polished structure and lined with lightly toasted apple wood and anise notes. O...

Wine Spectator: Frankly ripe, with a slightly jammy edge to the blueberry, plum and boysenberry notes, which slowly give way to a solid charcoal spine and a lingering alder note on the finish...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and dense, but still backward, with notes of bitter almond and orange zest holding the core of mango, papaya, fig, pear and Jonagold apple flavors at bay for now. Offers ...

Wine Spectator: This is loaded, with gorgeous papaya, mango, yellow apple and creamed peach flavors carried by salted caramel, toasted coconut and ginger cream notes. Very long on the finish,...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Pure but subdued aromas of blackberry and violet. Juicy, pure and nicely delineated, with sound acids framing and lifting the purple berry and floral flavors....

Wine Spectator: Very juicy, with layers of raspberry and plum fruit cascading over each other, while fruitcake, red licorice, floral and mineral notes fill in the background. The long, driven...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Inky ruby. Blackberry, cherry-cola and violet on the highly perfumed nose. Sappy and concentrated but lively as well, offering intense dark berry flavors that are given spin...

Wine Spectator: Frankly sweet and very direct, with candied green plum and green apple notes, followed by quince and ginger flavors. Shows the racy side of the vintage, but seems a bit shy on...

Wine Spectator: Features firm chalk and charcoal notes along the edges, with a mix of crushed plum and red currant fruit at the core. The bright, fresh finish lets the minerality meld with th...

Wine Spectator: Pure, ripe and engaging, with lovely notes of floral and bergamot leading to a core of succulent plum, boysenberry and blackberry fruit. A good underpinning of iron is buried ...

Wine Spectator: This has solid range, with blueberry, loganberry and bergamot notes mixed together and framed by anise-infused toast. There's solid flesh through the finish, with lingering pu...

Wine Spectator: Kirsch and dark plum fruit is succulent, and offset nicely by brisk, chalky minerality, which gives a good driven feel to the finish.-J.M.

Wine Spectator: A very ripe, fleshy, gutsy style, with mouthfilling tar, espresso, braised fig and dark plum notes still waiting to meld fully. The broad, muscular finish has a nice briary ed...