About this Wine: Soil: clay and chalk, with characteristically rounded, huge stones.

Blend: Grenache is the dominant grape, followed by Syrah and Cinsault.

Ian Conroy: Ruby core fades to a light garnet rim. A bright and high toned bouquet shows good intensity at a young age. Showing fresh raspberry, Bing cherry, Japanese plum, orange zest, f...

About this Wine: "The majestic Comtesse de Lalande (second Grand Cru Classé at Pauillac) brought into the world a wonderful wine called « La Réserve ». Particularly fine and elegant, this is o...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque purple. Dark berries, cherry pit and chocolate on the nose, with licorice and black cardamon nuances adding complexity. Sappy, expansive blackcurrant and cherry flavo...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Cabernet Sauvignon Priest Ranch is quite a bit more powerful and radiant than the 2010, but is also quite reticent today. There is plenty of richness in the glass, bu...

Wine Enthusiast: A powerful wine, very structured with wood, coffee notes and dark tannins. It feels extracted, although the weight of fruit is certainly enough to handle that. It’s for the lo...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Corton-Cuvee de Bourdon is a freakish, dark wine endowed with loads of jammy fruit, white flowers, licorice and spices. It is a sumptuous, even extreme wine that is n...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Corton-Cuvee de Bourdon is a freakish, dark wine endowed with loads of jammy fruit, white flowers, licorice and spices. It is a sumptuous, even extreme wine that is n...

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: Fattoria Viticcio's Chianti Classico Riserva is the result of careful selection of the finest grapes during harvesting, with a predominance of Tuscan Sangiovese. Vinification ...

Wine Enthusiast: So enormously delicious, it will be hard to keep from drinking this gorgeous Cabernet right away, and that’s just fine. It’s composed of the most intensly concentrated flavors...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Vougeot Le Clos du Prieure is another of the more delicate, restrained wines in this lineup. Sweet, silky tannins and floral notes round out the finish. Anticipated m...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A big, sweet, ripe nose of raspberry jam interwoven with white flowers, blueberries, kirsch and some subtle oak and camphor is followed by an intensely concentrated yet silky ...

About this Wine: This muscular wine has phenomenal density, dry vintage port-like concentration, and magnificent notes of smoke, blackberries, cassis, leather and coffee.

Wine Spectator: This is smoky and fleshy, with solid plum, baked fig and dark cherry preserves flavors, followed by hints of cedar and roasted tobacco that should emerge more with modest cell...

Wine & Spirits: Pinotage meets cabernet sauvignon and syrah in this nutmeg and clove-inflected Cape blend. It’s black and silky, the fruit inclining towards cassis and Mission fig—concentrate...

Wine Spectator: Light and spicy, this is aromatic with clove and mace overtones to its raspberry and lime flavors, remaining lively and persistent as the finish lingers. Drink now through 201...

About this Wine: This wine is made with a selection of Dijon Clones, primarily 113, 114 and 115, using fruit from several diiferent locations on the Estate that are all part of the vineyar...

Wine Spectator: A hint of green olive adds piquancy to the light, vivid raspberry and guava fruit, coming together with refinement and purity as the finish lingers deftly. Shows depth and t...