Wine Spectator: Dense, with good mouthfeel, offering notes of velvety, warm raspberry and boysenberry confiture. Kept lively by enticing spice, anise, bergamot and mandarin orange hints. The ...

Wine Spectator: Dense, with good mouthfeel, offering notes of velvety, warm raspberry and boysenberry confiture. Kept lively by enticing spice, anise, bergamot and mandarin orange hints. The ...

Wine Spectator: Dense, with good mouthfeel, offering notes of velvety, warm raspberry and boysenberry confiture. Kept lively by enticing spice, anise, bergamot and mandarin orange hints. The ...

Wine Spectator: A mix of blackberry, plum, licorice and spice highlight this elegant, midweight Barolo. There are some wood tannins, as well as those from the grape, yet this offers adequate ...

Wine Spectator: Bright with cherry and floral aromas and flavors, this red also reveals spice and mineral elements. Its tannins are dense and dusty, yet a sweetness prevails as this plays out...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Brittan's 2010 Pinot Noir Gestalt Block smells pungently, intriguingly and unusually of huckleberry, gunpowder green tea, and intimations of marine breeze and quarry dust, all...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Tart blackberry and black raspberry are prominent in Brittan's 2010 Pinot Noir Basalt Block along with notes of cardamom and fruit pit piquancy, not to mention mineral dimensi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin Vieilles Vignes blossoms onto the palate with an effortless grace that is hard to describe with mere words. There is tremendous depth and richness i...

Burghound: A discreet touch of mineral reduction adds breath to the otherwise fresh, elegant and beautifully complex nose of acacia blossom, rose petal, spiced pear and white peach. The ...

James Suckling: Bright aromas of raspberries and blackberries, follow through to a full body, with chewy, polished tannins and a juicy finish. Intense wine. Made from a vineyard selection. Be...

Wine Spectator: Big and bold, with currant, blackberry and plum fruit backed by espresso, smoke and mineral notes in this muscular red. The powerful character is more menacing than alluring, ...

Wine Spectator: Though rich, this is also beefy, with black cherry, broth and tobacco notes. The tannins are firm, but there's plenty of flesh and ripe fruit for balance. Fine length. Best fr...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Morey St. Denis Le Chenevery is rich, sumptuous and beautifully balanced. All the elements are woven together gracefully in this deeply expressive wine. Underlying mi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Morey St. Denis Aux Charmes shows gorgeous aromatic lift and sheer energy. Deep, spiced notes meld into black fruit, mineral and flowers as the wine opens up in the g...

Wine Spectator: This is dark but racy and driven, with a gorgeous Turkish coffee note giving way to flavors of roasted fig, blackberry paste and baker's chocolate. Polished and seamless throu...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (one-third new oak): Bright ruby-red. Hints of game, sexy oak and minerals on the nose. Sweet, suave and seamless; more complex than the 60 Ouvrees but less obviously vibra...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (50% vendange entier): Good bright, dark red. Very ripe black fruits and peppery spices on the nose; distinct hints of surmaturite. Big, sweet, ripe and rich; in a rather p...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Medium red. Subtle, vinous aromas of redcurrant, red cherry, underbrush and leather. Sweet and silky on entry, then tight in the middle, with terrific purity and verve to th...

Wine Spectator: A ripe, exotic style, showing black currant, blueberry and cherry flavors. The bright fruit quickly gives way to stiff tannins, yet this is balanced, building to a long, fruit...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2008 Martinet Bru is a bit more forward and elegant. It can be approached now but will benefit from another 2-3 years of cellaring. Mas Martinet is owned by Jose Luis P...