Wine Enthusiast: Hard to exaggerate the beauty of this mountain-grown wine, which is based on Cabernet Sauvignon but contains the other four classic Bordeaux varieties. Although it's very tann...

About this Wine: Created in 2002, Quinta Sardonia is a joint project between star winemaker Peter Sisseck of Pingus (Ribera del Duero) and Jerome Bougnaud. Located just 400 meters from the...

Wine Spectator: A plush texture carries rich flavors of brandied cherry, dark chocolate, cocoa and mountain herbs in this expressive red. The tannins are firm but well-integrated, and the fin...

Wine Enthusiast: Extremely smooth and silky in texture, this elegantly crafted wine features aromas and flavors of cedar, sassafras and chocolate, with some berry fruit showing through on the ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "Dr. Pirie calls the 2006 Estelle "an upscale Edelzwicker," composed of 50% Riesling, 30% Gewurztraminer, and 20% Pinot Gris. It offers a spicy nose with floral and tropical n...

Wine Spectator: An extraordinary effort, very tightly wound with a wealth of detailed flavors, exhibiting tiers of black cherry, plum, currant, berry jam, cedar, cigar box, black licorice a...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Collioure les Junquets is pungently scented with lavender, rosemary, and star anise, along with cassis and slightly detached notes of resin, spice, and vanilla from t...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The Mas Blanc 2006 Collioure Cosprons Levants is low-toned throughout, with diverse black fruits, dark chocolate and roasted meats tinged by crushed stone and iodine. This dis...

Wine Spectator: Very rich and densely packed, with a huge core of raspberry ganache, macerated plum and hoisin sauce notes wrapped by dark licorice, Turkish coffee and charred applewood. The ...

Mike Supple: 95% Shiraz and 5% Viognier, but the little 5% does an amazing job lifting the aromas out of the glass. Fun and different, this is a fantastic little wine. Bright ruby and purp...

Wine Spectator: Very rich and polished, with layers of black Mission fig, bittersweet ganache, hoisin sauce, melted black licorice, Black Forest cake and currant confiture, all stretched over...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Ruby-red. Spicy red and dark berry aromas are complicated by musky tobacco and underbrush. Firm and youthfully dry, with medium weight and chewy cherry and cassis flavors carr...

Wine Spectator: Powerful, with a round, almost creamy core of blackberry and raspberry fruit all layered with cocoa, sweet toast, mesquite and fig paste. Long and rich through the finish. S...

Wine Spectator: Gorgeous kirsch and mocha aromas lead the way for this silky, alluring version, loaded with raspberry ganache, fruitcake, melted red licorice and graphite notes. The long, sil...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full, dark red. Cherry, mocha, chocolate, clove and an exotic rancio element on the deep nose. Then glycerol and hugely sweet in the mouth, almost heavy for this bottli...

Wine Spectator: Polished and expressive, this shows a smoky baseline of graphite-laced minerality, with fine-grained tannins and mouthwatering acidity focusing the flavors of date, kirsch, gr...

About this Wine: Intriguing is perhaps the word that best sums up this full bodied, powerful, dry red wine. It is a rich ruby red in appearance, without being excessively opaque. It displays p...

Wine Enthusiast: This is rich, creamy and zesty at the same time, redolent of citrus, peach, pear and Golden Delicious apple, followed by opulent tones of toasted nut and freshly baked bread. ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2005 Premium is sourced from the estate's oldest vines, some of them over 100 years. Malolactic fermentation was in new French oak followed by aging in another set of new ...