Wine Spectator: Dense and powerful, with firm road tar, black licorice, blackberry, smoke and ripe berry flavors. Full-blown, deep and persistent, long and layered, promising even more in a y...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright dark red. Tangy candied fruits, cocoa powder, flowers and licorice on the lively nose. Juicy, sharply delineated and vibrant, with lovely but youthfully subdued ...

Wine Enthusiast: You know you're dealing with a great Pinot Noir when it's this delicious right out of the bottle, yet will age. This wine is enormously rich and sweet in cherries, blackberrie...

Wine Spectator: On the lighter side, this offers a cinnamon edge to the red berry flavors, lingering gently, with elegance. Drink now through 2015. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. -HS

About this Wine: "Taylor's finest and rarest wine, the very pinnacle of port. Only in a year when everything is perfect does Taylor's `declare' a vintage. With the company's reputation at stak...

About this Wine: La Togata is made of 100% Sangiovese Grosso grapes, accurately selected by picking two out of every five. They are then transferred to another cellar, where they are proce...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque ruby. Pungent, oak-spiced aromas of dark fruit compote and cherry, with pipe tobacco, mocha and lavender nuances. Sappy and expansive, offering seamless, sweet blackc...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby. Brooding aromas of blackberry, black cherry, licorice and bitter chocolate. Broad, dense and deep, with compelling purity, lift and sweetness and captivating flavor...

About this Wine: Land: A plateau of limestone; bordering slopes with chalk and clay soils....

Wine Spectator: Light and refreshing, with zip to the cherry and guava flavors, sailing into the soft, inviting finish. This has depth and length on a delicate frame. Drink now through 2017. ...

Wine Spectator: Lilac, tar and cassis bush aromas are followed by a broad swath of mulled plum, black currant and maduro tobacco. The strong, mineral- and tar-filled spine drives through the ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good deep red with a ruby tinge. Silky on entry, then sweet and penetrating in the middle palate, with cherry and redcurrant fruit flavors lifted by spices. Very long and su...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good dark red. Pure aromas of blackberry, cherry, white pepper and flowers, plus a whiff of menthol. Juicy, sappy and energetic, showing more personality--and density--today...

Burghound: An airy, cool and pretty nose of forest floor and herbal notes marries into stony and attractively detailed middle weight flavors that are also delicious but there is some bac...

Connoisseurs' Guide: High in ripeness and high in sweet fruit yet backed by a bounty of firm acidity, Loring's Clos Pepe bottling starts out with lots of palatal viscosity and then tightens en rou...

Wine Spectator: Quite vibrant, with a racy core of dark raspberry, currant and boysenberry fruit that drives along a solid graphite spine. The long, alluring finish stretches out impressively...

About this Wine: The wines from "Les Avaux" are very deep and dark in colour. The bouquet is very varied and complex, with animal notes suggestive of leather and aromas of red and dark fruits,...

Wine Spectator: Blackberry aromas, with dark chocolate and mineral. Full and dense, with lovely fruit and a long, silky finish. Balanced and pretty. Best from 2011 through 2014. 3,415 cases m...