Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Full medium yellow. Pineapple and sexy barrel notes on the nose. Big, rich, dense and powerful, with penetratingflavors of pineapple and ripe yellow peach. Shows a hint of sau...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and velvety, with a coating of toast slowly seeping into the core of plum and blackberry fruit. Leaves a polished, caressing feel on the finish. — J.M.

Wine Enthusiast: A very dry and tannic wine, this is hard edged, showing distinct minerality and a dry, gravelly feel. It has herbal notes, followed by rich spice and dark, brooding fruits. A ...

Wine Enthusiast: A seriously rich, full, extracted wine, packed with dense tannins and complex fruits. The wine has weight, dark tannins and a solid character that will certainly age well.

Wine Spectator: Juicy and open, with a bright mix of strawberry, pomegranate and cherry fruit laced with a pleasantly firm structure. Shows more flesh and dark fruit with aeration, releasing ...

Wine Spectator: Features a core of dark anise, fruitcake, plum sauce and raspberry, with a fleshy texture that hangs through the finish. Has guts without the vintage’s chewy, taut feel. — J.M...

Wine Spectator: Features a core of dark anise, fruitcake, plum sauce and raspberry, with a fleshy texture that hangs through the finish. Has guts without the vintage’s chewy, taut feel. — J.M...

Wine Spectator: Primal, with a polished feel and a blast of ebullient raspberry and black cherry fruit. Flickers of singed apple wood, red licorice and fruitcake hang in the background. This ...

Wine Spectator: Features pure notes of stone, chamomile, white peach, lemongrass and kaffir lime. Offers a lovely, sleek feel and a long, graceful finish, with a high-toned echo of talc on th...

Wine Spectator: Dark, with a ganache frame to the black currant, plum and blackberry notes. Tarry finish is rather shut and stolid today, but there’s serious stuffing here. Long charcoal echo...

Wine Spectator: This is beautiful, with gorgeous linzer torte, blackberry confiture and anise notes gliding along, infused with black tea, singed spice and perfectly integrated apple wood not...

Wine Spectator: Delivers singed vanilla and apple wood notes melding with a core of steeped plum and red currant fruit. A sanguine hint emerges slowly on the finish, while briar and mineral n...

Wine Spectator: Showing mouthwatering purity from the start, this is remarkably floral today, with bergamot, orange blossom and cherry notes out front, pushed by a hint of violet, then backed...

Wine Spectator: The savory tobacco and cassis notes race along, with a charcoal frame. A backdrop of kirsch fill this out, displaying a peppery hint on the lightly dusty finish. Tasted non-bl...

Wine Spectator: Delivers black tea and singed vanilla aromas, with supple red currant and iron notes. A pleasant backdrop of cedar comes into focus on the sinewy finish. Tasted non-blind. — J...

Wine Spectator: This has a bold, spicy lead, with flashes of anise, cocoa and cinnamon giving way to lightly mulled cherry, raspberry and plum fruit. Delivers a velvety feel on the finish, sh...

Wine Spectator: Showy style, with lots of ganache and dark toast leading the way, backed by ample plum sauce, fig paste and currant confiture notes. Long, charcoal-framed finish has plenty of...

Wine Spectator: Pure and polished, with very suave tannins caressing the plum, blackberry and black cherry fruit, while singed spice, melted black licorice and black tea fill in on the finish...

Wine Spectator: Solidly built, with lemon pulp and grapefruit rind notes framing a rich core of creamed yellow apple and white peach. Nice minerality drives the finish. — J.M.

Wine Spectator: Ripe style, with crème fraîche, white peach and chamomile notes followed by a creamy, wet-straw framed finish. — J.M.