Wine Spectator: This opulent red offers a welcome savory note weaving through its ripe cherry, red plum and black tea flavors. A glint of roasted meat and sassafras adds complexity to the lon...

Wine Front: Opens a little stinky and charred but there's a good amount of fleshy cherry and plum fruit along with Hunter earth and some vanilla oak. Appropriately firm, but fine tannin, ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Very deep purple-black colored, the 2009 Autograph Shiraz is intensely scented of creme de cassis, black cherry preserves and dried plums with hints of fruit cake, baking spic...

Wine Spectator: A very fresh, pure style, with a strong violet note leading the way for almost brisk blackberry, black currant and black cherry fruit, pushed by sweet tobacco and tapenade not...

Wine Front: The overarching impression it gives you is one of balance. It's impeccable. Blue fruit, licorice, a little pepper and earth with a gentle charry sauciness. Oak is downplayed t...

Wine Spectator: An exotic and flashy red, with bold espresso, melted licorice, incense and black tea aromatics rushing forth, backed by dense but focused noted of blackberry and plum pâte de ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Given the performance of his recent Pinots - not to mention allowing for this being but the second vintage from its vines (four clones plus heirloom Stags' Leap selections, al...

Wine Spectator: Very enticing, with roasted herb, olive and spice notes flittering in front of darker pastis, blackberry paste and briar notes. The long, grippy finish is iron-driven, with a ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Last year I gave the 2009 Hermitage Cuvee Cathelin a three-digit rating, but it was nice to be able to re-taste it since it is largely impossible to find in the marketplace. E...

Wine Spectator: Offers freshness, purity and depth in a sleek package, with rose petal accents to the ripe blackberry, dark plum and brioche aromas and flavors. Lingers with deftness on the f...

About this Wine: An acknowledged icon of the Barossa, St Hallett Old Block is an elegant and seamless Shiraz widely recognised as world class. Derived purely from low cropping old vines of...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright purple. Blackberry and cassis scents are complicated by notes of game, black pepper and bitter chocolate. Spicy dark fruit flavors show good concentration and focus, ...

Wine Spectator: Features a racy core of red currant, damson plum and blackberry fruit stitched with chalky tannins and backed by warm stone and olive pit notes on the finish. Enlivened with b...

Wine Spectator: A muscular red, with an almost brooding feel, as steeped blackberry and black currant fruit rolls along, spiked with pastis-soaked plum, charcoal and dark tobacco, followed by...

About this Wine: Produced only in exceptional vintages, the Ermitage Ex-Voto is the expression of a sincere desire to produce an exceptional wine which reflects the soul of this prestigiou...

About this Wine: The Shanel Syrah, which was the basis of the Sonoma Coast bottling in 2004 and 2005, is gone after the 2010 vintage, and starting with the 2007 has been blended with Rodgers C...

Wine Spectator: Features a rich medley of dark berry, charcoal, espresso and beef carpaccio, with the melted licorice and mocha core occupying center stage. Features chewy tannins. Best from ...

Wine Enthusiast: You had better love big, burly, meaty reds if you’re going to dig this Syrah, which is ultraripe and lush. The raisiny aroma is almost heavy, while the palate is big but not e...