Wine Spectator: This has a thick texture, with layers of mocha and cocoa holding sway over extracted boysenberry and blackberry fruit. The dark, plum skin-framed finish relies on power more t...

About this Wine: Area  : 2.19 hectares (5.41 acres)
Soil : clay, limestone
Grape varieties : 76% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc
Average age of the vines : 32 years
Grape harvest: ...

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: Solidly built, with notes of singed vanilla bean and a flicker of espresso framing the core of plum, red currant and steeped cherry fruit. Toasty but sleek, with a perfumy edg...

Wine Spectator: Rounded and ripe, with dark blackberry and boysenberry flavors melded with ganache, melted black licorice and Black Forest cake. Lush, but with a lovely smoldering charcoal hi...

Wine Spectator: This has a really nice graphite frame that drives the core of fig, plum and boysenberry fruit authoritatively, with dense ganache, espresso and tar on the finish. The grip is ...

Wine Spectator: Solidly built, with thickly layered fig, blueberry and açaí berry flavors pumping along, supported by still-chewy ganache and tobacco notes. An accent of roasted apple wood dr...

Wine Spectator: Plump and enticing, with a mouthwatering anise note that pulls you in quickly before delivering waves of blueberry, açaí berry and plum fruit, followed by bouncy spice and flo...

Wine Spectator: Pretty aromas of blackberries, vanilla and cherries follow through to a medium-bodied palate, with good tannins and a fresh finish. Nice wine. Second wine of Latour. Best afte...

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...

Neal Martin's Wine Journal: Tasted at the Cru Bourgeois 2009 tasting in London. The Devise d'Ardilley was the winner of the Coup de Cru Bourgeois that I judged at Vinexpo in June. Here, it justifies that...

Wine Spectator: Plenty of crushed grape and green tobacco character. Full- to medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a fruity, refreshing finish. Score range: 89-91 (JS)

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright red-ruby. Inky dark berries and a whiff of meat on the nose. Supple and broad on the palate, with harmonious acidity framing and lifting the smoky red fruit flavors. Of...

Wine Spectator: Polished, this is coated with ambitious mocha-infused toast, but the core of plum and boysenberry is honest and the dense finish of loam and cocoa is integrated and long. Drin...

Wine Spectator: Offers a friendly, caressing feel, with plum sauce and blackberry fruit, inlaid cocoa and apple wood notes and a well-focused finish. Not big, but defined and balanced. Drink ...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and rather direct, with plum sauce, blackberry preserves and black licorice notes, turning slightly stolid on the finish. Best from 2015 through 2020. -JM

Wine Spectator: Vibrant, with mouthwatering lemon rind, bitter grapefruit and chamomile notes, flecked with floral and chartreuse hints. Very pure, featuring a spine that will hold up to agin...

Wine Spectator: Rather briary, with an energetic feel to the crushed blackberry, loganberry and mulberry fruit, laced with bay leaf and iron, and backed by a long, perfumy finish that offers ...

Wine Spectator: The dark currant and blackberry fruit is offset by a lively, racy, chalky spine and mouthwatering notes of savory and violet. Stays firm through the finish, with a charcoal co...

About this Wine: The vines of Secret de Cardinale are located on a 1.20 hectares plot bordering Château Fleur Cardinale. This wine is made in small quantities using the same growing and wine m...