About this Wine: ...went though its malolactic fermentation in all new French and American barrels, but a portion of the wine was aged in tank...

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 ...

Wine Spectator: Rich and velvety, with concentrated but lithe layers of fig sauce, blackberry confiture and fresh plum studded with singed apple wood, dark tobacco and a flicker of warm stone...

Wine Spectator: Dense but polished, with a great, creamy mouthfeel to the fig, black licorice, plum and currant preserve flavors, all followed by a very racy graphite edge on the long, intens...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2008 Auditori is 100% Garnacha from 80- to 100-year-old vines aged for 13 months in French oak. Opaque purple-colored, it displays a fragrant bouquet of incense, red licor...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby. Pungent aromas of blackberry, licorice and violet. Lush and densely packed, with solid grip to its dark fruit, spice and floral pastille flavors. On the serious, br...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: I was blown away by how favorably the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape Les Petits Pieds d'Armand had evolved. Last year I indicated it was still fermenting, and now that it is in bott...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: From one of the highest vineyards in Priorat at 600 metres, the outstanding 2009 Els Escurcons is a pure Garnacha grown on llicorella (slate) soils with a higher ferrous conte...

Wine Spectator: Smooth and ripe, with pomegranate and red cherry fruit at the core and a strong overlay of peppery spice. The slightly gritty tannins need cellaring, but this should get there...

Wine Spectator: Still a touch raw, with a coating of singed wood and coffee notes that are yet to meld fully. But there's velvety-textured blackberry, plum sauce and boysenberry fruit, with a...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The estate’s mid-level effort is the fairly priced Alto Moncayo. This wine is spectacular, and represents the perfect foil for grilled steak. Even richer, fuller, and mor...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Puech-Haut's 2009 Coteaux du Languedoc Saint-Drezery Quercus - named for a prominent oak tree at this spot in their vineyards, not for oak employed in elevage - represents the...

Wine Front: I tasted and reviewed this with the label facing me, but without knowing the price tag... No one quite invests in McLaren Vale grenache like D'Arenberg does, so you can't blam...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: While not as expressive as the Kangarilla, the 2001 Grenache Old Vines Hickinbotham Vineyard is a full-bodied, structured, muscular effort with notes of black fruits intermixe...

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...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque ruby. Spicy red and dark berry aromas are complicated by lavender and rose, with a sexy Asian spice quality gaining power in the glass. Fleshy black raspberry and che...