About this Wine: "...intense and complex bouquet, with peach, apricot, mango candied white fruit, honey, vanilla, elderflower, and sugar candy and lily of the valley aromas. Full on the palate...

About this Wine: "...intense and complex bouquet, with peach, apricot, mango candied white fruit, honey, vanilla, elderflower, and sugar candy and lily of the valley aromas. Full on the palate...

Wine Spectator: Very pure, with dusty cherry, plum and cassis fruit flavors, featuring a suave finish threaded with warm stone and licorice notes. Shows solid length for the vintage. Tasted n...

Wine Spectator: Bright cherry and berry fruit flavors nestle in a broad, soft texture in this juicy red, which has bright acidity, modest tannins and an herbal, floral finish that's fresh and...

Wine Spectator: Intense aromas of violets, berries and spices follow through to a full-bodied palate, with layers of supersilky tannins and a long, long finish. Very classic in style. All in ...

Wine Spectator: Offers subtle and complex aromas, with violet, cedar and blackberry. Full-bodied, with ultrafine tannins and a very long finish. -JS

Wine Spectator: Plush for the vintage, with a lovely, caressing feel and lots of steeped plum, anise and blackberry fruit. Displays a lacing of tar through the finish, revealing a graceful tu...

Ryan Moses: 80% merlot, 15% cabernet sauvignon, 5% cabernet franc. Dark inky core with a hazy purple rim. The bouquet is restrained, with jammy red and black fruit that fades into vanilla...

Wine Spectator: Delicious. Full, rich and exuding toasted brioche, vanilla and honey notes, this suave Champagne feels like velvet, ending with a lingering aftertaste of coffee. Drink now thr...

Burghound: Residual fermentation aromas dominate the nose but the seductively textured flavors are clean and bright. There is solid mid-palate concentration to the citrusy, complex, bala...

Wine Spectator: This has a distinctive apple wood and mesquite mix up front, with racy linzer torte and cherry pit notes leading the way for extra plum and cassis flavors. Toasted wood and sp...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright medium red. Very ripe aromas of tobacco and smoky minerality. Larger-scaled than the Clos de la Barre, with flavors of medicinal black cherry, licorice and wild ...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and dense, with sleek linzer torte and boysenberry fruit supported by black tea, roasted mesquite and a long, graphite-filled finish. Mouthfilling and very tasty. Drink n...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light orange-pink. Musky, spice-accented aromas and flavors of redcurrant, cherry and rose pastille. Firm, even a bit ungiving, on entry, then fleshier in the mid-palate, wi...

Wine Spectator: This harmonious Champagne offers luxurious texture and powerful, focused acidity, showing aromatic accents of spring blossom, crushed thyme and chai, with rich notes of lemon ...

Wine Spectator: The whole package. A texture of raw silk and finely cut acidity are seamlessly integrated with layers of dried cherry, ground espresso, cardamom and ginger, ripe raspberry, mi...

Burghound: A discreet note of wood frames ripe citrus blossom aromas that precede rich, round and generous flavors that retain a good sense of underlying detail, all wrapped in a linear ...

Wine Spectator: Rather dark and reticent, with bittersweet cocoa and licorice snap notes blocking off the core of ripe plum and boysenberry fruit, while the tarry undertow emerges more on the...

Wine Spectator: Bright and pure, with a creamy core of plum, cassis and boysenberry fruit lined with anise and sweet toast. Not overdone at all, this shows solid weight. — J.M.