Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Pale ruby in color, the 2008 Tinker's Field Pinot Noir presents expressive scents of red cherry, lavender and underbrush with a touch of cassia. Crisp, medium bodied with medi...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Medium red. Sexy aromas of spicy red fruits, flowers and herbs. Nicely ripe, supple and accessible, with a creamy texture and good breadth for village wine. Firm acids give sh...

Burghound: A slightly riper nose of mostly fresh red berry fruit aromas laced with hints of earth and game give way to textured and relatively suave medium-bodied flavors that possess mo...

Burghound: An elegant and refined upper register nose features cool and very pretty red currant, plum and humus-suffused aromas that introduce admirably pure middle weight flavors that a...

Burghound: A very fresh and rather woodsy nose of forest floor, floral and wild red berry aromas merges into relatively refined flavors that possess a detailed and earthy finish that is ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: At close to 50 years, the vines that inform Chauvenet's 2008 Nuits-St.-Georges Les Chaignots are the oldest sources for any of his crus. Smoky black tea, star anise, black pep...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Palate-staining plum and cherry dusted with cardamom and cinnamon in Chauvenet's 2008 Nuits-St.-Georges Les Charmottes marry the cut and vivacity typical of its vintage with c...

Burghound: An airy, cool and pretty nose of forest floor and herbal notes marries into stony and attractively detailed middle weight flavors that are also delicious but there is some bac...

Burghound: There is an herbal character to the otherwise fresh red berry fruit nose that gives way to lightly concentrated middle weight flavors that are supple and round though they ret...

Burghound: This is also relatively wood-influenced as the oak sets off ripe but fresh aromas of plum, spice and earth, all of which continue onto the powerful and well-muscled middle wei...

Christopher Massie: Gorgeous ruby red in color; glistens like a gem stone. Room filling aromatics escape from the glass to include the purest nuances of black berry combined with intense floral t...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium red. Spicy raspberry and a sweet hint of chocolate on the nose. Spicy and tight, with lovely acid cut and energy to the crunchy red fruit flavors. Finishes with...

Wine Spectator: An intriguing, multidimensional wine, with layer after layer of truffle, mineral, clove and chicory notes that frame the plush, ripe black cherry and plum flavors. The intensi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Pavelots' 2008 Savigny-les-Beaune Serpentieres features aromas of cherry and plum with intimations of their pits, as well as a maritime combination of saline and alkaline scen...

Burghound: This offers a small step up in aromatic complexity with a layered nose of a variety of red berry fruits plus lovely violet hints that serve as a relatively refined introductio...

Burghound: A fresh and attractively layered nose of wet stone, floral notes, red currant and plum merge into unusually supple, even silky flavors that are remarkably forward and accessib...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Fresh plum and plum distillate tinged with ginger and white pepper pungently scent the Pavelot 2008 Savigny-les-Beaune Gravains, and these are allied on a bright, lean, yet ph...

John Gilman: The Bressandes was the very last wine to finish its malolactic in 2008 in the Pavelot cellars, and yet the wine was showing very well indeed in November. The bouquet is deep, ...

Wine Spectator: Though rich, this has a sinewy quality and a firm structure supporting its blackberry, black currant and violet aromas and flavors. Bright, fresh and still tight on the long f...