Wine Spectator: This fresh Champagne offers a lively bead and a smoky, mineral-tinged base note. Flavors of poached apple and pear, dried cherry, bread dough and lemon zest lead to a finish o...

About this Wine: "Monbousquet is a blend of 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. The grapes are fermented in temperature-controlled, stainless steel tanks and the wine is...

Wine Spectator: A mix of weedy herbal, dill and spicy oak scents with medium-bodied cherry and bell pepper. Elegant and drinking well.--1998 California Cabernet retrospective. Drink now. -JL

Wine Spectator: Well-crafted, with ripe, spicy red currant, cinnamon and plum-tinged fruit. Well-balanced, with good depth and length. Mildly tannic. Drink now through 2009. 938 cases made. &...

Wine Spectator: Well focused, with ripe black cherry, plum and wild berry flavors, a hint of cedar and spice and mild but firm tannins on the finish...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Saturated red-ruby. Cooler currant, floral, coffee and mint aromas, plus some enticing nutty oak. Dense, rich and sweet, with terrific inner-mouth flavor and lively, integrate...

About this Wine: This wine honors long-time Shafer Winemaker Elias Fernandez and his relentless pursuit of quality. Sourced from ridgetop and foothills vineyards adjacent to the southern borde...

About this Wine: This wine honors long-time Shafer Winemaker Elias Fernandez and his relentless pursuit of quality. Sourced from ridgetop and foothills vineyards adjacent to the southern borde...

About this Wine: "Intense and concentrated, with effusive aromas of cassis, candied cherry and black olive. A rich core of dark stone fruit is accented by flavors of clove and chocolate. Like ...

Wine Spectator: A big, rich, dense and distinctive California red that adds some earthy, leathery dimensions to its appealing core of currant and plummy, minerally Cabernet fruit flavors. Tig...

About this Wine: Its firm, well-rounded tannins offer a smoothness ever present over the years. Being highly concentrated, it can be left to age  for many years...

Wine Spectator: Smooth, rich and fleshy, this is a notably complex and concentrated youngster, with a tasty core of ripe currant, black cherry, cedar, olive and sage notes that are well-focus...

About this Wine: "This fine, top drawer, Rothschild owned estate has produced a blockbuster '89 with an intensly perfumed nose, luxuriously rich palate and the ability to age for decades. A wi...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full, dark red. Deep, pure, brooding aromas of black cherry, licorice and leather, plus a hint of oak spices. Offers lovely aromatic lift but comes across as tightly wo...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Saturated ruby-red. Brooding, superripe aromas of blackberry, licorice, spicecake, truffle and toffee, with a strong element of sweet oak showing. Like liquid velvet on the pa...

Wine Spectator: Offers lush fruit, with dark raspberry and boysenberry notes, good, graphite-laced structure and bright acidity weaving throughout. The long, smoldering finish features an app...