About this Wine: 100% Syrah. Notes of bitter chocolate, blackberry, and lavender on the nose.  Flavors of licorice, graphite, and sweet fruit. Finishes with round tannins, dried flowers...

Wine Spectator: Thick with black cherry and blackberry fruit, finishing with a touch of exotic spices. Has a bit more refinement than most big Shirazes. Drink now through 2008. 1,800 cases ma...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The profound 2005 Shiraz John Zilm was aged in new French and used American oak for 16 months. With an inky/blue/purple color, plenty of purity, richness, and depth as well as...

Wine Spectator: A towering Barossa Shiraz. Distinctively spicy, brimming with prune, pepper and leather aromas and flavors on a rich, supple frame. Resonates beautifully on the finish, and wi...

About this Wine: As I have written many times, all of these wines are produced from rigidly cultivated, bio-dynamically managed vineyards. That has been the rule since Michel Chapoutier fi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Syrah Pisoni Vineyard-Susan's Hill, which comes from an upper ridge of the Pisoni Vineyard. The most backward of this quartet, about one-third whole clusters/stems ar...

Wine Spectator: Bright and jazzy, a lively mouthful of red berry, beet and spice aromas and flavors that remain zippy through the polished finish. Drink now through 2014. 200 cases imported. ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good youthful deep red. Perfumed, multifaceted aromas of crystallized black cherry, cassis, gibier and smoke. Fruity and precise in the mouth, with amazingly youthful dark ber...

Wine Spectator: Rich and dense, but velvety and nicely detailed, with sleek-edged cassis, blackberry and plum fruit woven with white pepper, mulled spice and dark olive notes. A strong, tangy...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Brooding, deep nose dominated by pepper and spice. Large-scaled but youthfully clenched, with a strong peppery quality complicated by flowers and dark chocola...

Wine Spectator: Rich and nicely toasty, with lots of baker's chocolate and espresso notes, but also ample flesh, joined by succulent layers of blackberry, plum and fig fruit as well. The long...

Wine Spectator: Blackberry, cracked pepper and graphite aromas and flavors, with hints of vanilla and toast, highlight this muscular red. Firmly structured, yet resonates on the long raspberr...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Inky purple. A ripe, expansive nose is at once decadent and lively, offering notes of candied dark berries, smoky minerals, black pepper, and olive. Lush and fine-grained, wit...

About this Wine: The 1 hecatare, terraced Cornas Les Eygats site is situated at a relatively high altitude. It has pure granite soil and and an ideal south-east exposure.

Les Eygats...

Wine Spectator: Sleek and tightly wound for now, with a bundle of red licorice, cassis, damson plum and spice notes at the core, pushed by brisk acidity and a lively, chalky edge on the finis...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Most of the fruit comes from hillside vineyards in Larnage. The 2010 St.-Joseph Les Granits (870 cases produced) is a more flowery, elegant, feminine-styled effort than Les Va...

About this Wine: As I have written many times, all of these wines are produced from rigidly cultivated, bio-dynamically managed vineyards. That has been the rule since Michel Chapoutier fi...

Wine Spectator: An open-throttle Syrah that's pure, rich and powerful, with a potent mix of dense plum, blackberry, blueberry and dried herb holding a tight focus and gaining depth through th...

Wine Spectator: Smooth and polished, delivering a plush mouthful of plum, blackberry and balsamic aromas and flavors that linger on the finish with a touch of coffee. Drink now through 2016. ...

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, ...