Wine Spectator: Focused, juicy and effusive with its notes of black cherry, roasted red pepper and savory spice, this isn't a heavy wine, but it's persistent as the finish extends. Best from ...

Wine Spectator: This has depth for the vintage, with plum sauce, violet, blackberry and mulled cherry notes laced with incense and graphite. The long finish has a nice velvety feel, with a bu...

Wine Spectator: This really stands apart from the crowd, with searingly intense minerality cutting through a massive core of pastis, plum sauce and fig paste. Gorgeous violet and spice notes ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: More flint, barbecue smoke, crushed rock, spring flower, blueberry and black raspberry characteristics are present in the full-bodied 2011 St.-Joseph Les Granits. Uncommonly f...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The dense purple-colored 2011 Crozes-Hermitage Les Varonnieres offers notes of black olives, tapenade, gun flint, smoky barbecue, charcuterie and red meats. Full-bodied, soft ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: More flint, barbecue smoke, crushed rock, spring flower, blueberry and black raspberry characteristics are present in the full-bodied 2011 St.-Joseph Les Granits. Uncommonly f...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The dense purple-colored 2011 Crozes-Hermitage Les Varonnieres offers notes of black olives, tapenade, gun flint, smoky barbecue, charcuterie and red meats. Full-bodied, soft ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Lurid purple. Potent, smoke-accented scents of blackberry, cassis and candied violet, with a spicy topnote. Stains the palate with sappy black and blue fruit flavors that be...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Aged in 500-liter pungeons for 36 months, there are only 676 magnums of the 2003 Syrah Pangea. Representing an homage to Marcel Guigalā_Ts single vineyard Cote Roties (which a...

Wine Spectator: A torrid summer with little rain and good weather during the harvest led to a Chapelle of immense potential. Burly and not as seamless as the '90, with layers of this wine's t...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The prodigious 2002 Shiraz Apricot Block (only 10-year-old vines) was produced from fruit cropped at 1.5 tons per acre. Its big, peppery, floral, blueberry, blackberry, pen in...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Sappy aromas of black- and redcurrant, black licorice and spices. Very intensely flavored and firm-edged, with dark berry flavors complicated by herbal and pe...

Wine Spectator: Rock-solid, with a great core of dark plum and fig fruit woven with incense, Turkish coffee, melted licorice and mineral notes. The long finish lets the mouthwatering acidity ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The big, concentrated yet velvety-textured, magnificent 2003 Shiraz reveals a seamless integration of tannin, acidity, wood, and alcohol, it boasts aromas of blackberry liqueu...

Wine Spectator: Gorgeous stuff, it practically radiates a range of aromas and flavors, balancing its ripe cherry, blackberry and plum fruit with hints of minerals and sweet spices that make t...

About this Wine: The name 'Reiver' is taken from the border raiders of the Anglo-Scot borders. Throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the border country was ravaged by lawless Reiver...

About this Wine: "This estate's most renowned offering is their old vine Shiraz (90+ year old vines) called The Dead Arm. The unfined/unfiltered 1999 The Dead Arm Shiraz (2,000 cases) was aged...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Formerly known as Three Rivers, this cuvee can be one of Australia’s greatest Shiraz. However, 2000 was a challenging year for this 95-year-old vineyard cropped at .5 ton...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Winemaker John Duval called the 1981 a "big, tannic Grange." It is just that, a very powerful, inky, purple-colored wine that is still almost primary and unevolved i...

Wine Spectator: A magnificent edifice of a wine, elegant and refined in structure but dripping with flavor--a virtual cascade of plum, black cherry, blackberry, anise, pepper and exotic spice...