Wine Spectator: Round and forward, showing cherry and strawberry flavors, this is pure and focused, with a bright structure underlining the fruit. Offers lovely balance and a lingering finish...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Langhe Larigi (Barbera) is a pretty, layered Barbera laced with perfumed fruit. The wine shows superb balance in a medium-bodied style framed by silky, elegant tannin...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Barolo Arborina shows fabulous intensity and integrity in its dark red fruit. Higher toned, ethereal, mentholated notes emerge over time adding further lift and brigh...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep inky ruby. Pure, refined aromas of fresh blackcurrant, minerals, violet and coffee liqueur. Then pure and suave in the mouth, with excellent density to the blackberry and...

About this Wine: First produced in 1979, the masterpiece of Castellare. Twice named in the Wine Spectator Top 100, again and again three glasses and five bunches, it has shown the grandeur o...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Corbaia is 70% Sangiovese and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon aged in new French oak. It is once again a very serious wine. The floral, expressive aromatics of Sangiovese are ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Barolo Monserra shows excellent focus and energy in a core of bright red fruit, flowers and mint. This is an energetic, somewhat nervous style, especially within the ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: (85% mencia, 7% garnacha, 6% brancello and 2% mouraton): Bright ruby. Extremely fresh, mineral-accented red berry and floral aromas are complicated by sexy Asian spices and ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Lacima offers a similar aromatic and flavor profile but with a bit more of everything. It is beautifully fragrant, elegant, and concentrated. Hard to resist now, it i...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Coteaux du Languedoc Vassal is from lesser lots of Syrah with 20% Mourvedre. Fennel, marjoram, tar, mulberry, blackberry, roasted meats, and chocolate run from nose t...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Barolo Riserva Vecchie Viti dei Capalot e delle Brunate (magnum) is another drop-dead gorgeous wine. The wine remains rather shy, revealing shades of its personality ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Voerzio's 2007 Merlot is a sumptuous red laced with grilled herbs, black fruit, espresso and French oak. There is an expressive spiciness to the bouquet that could easily be c...

Wine Enthusiast: Dark and incredibly concentrated, with earth, black fruits, mint and exotic side notes. It's stout and tannic, but also rich and pure, with monster black fruit flavor and powe...

Wine Enthusiast: Rich and dramatic by any standards, this new release offers a blast of ripe blackberry, currant and mineral flavors. New oak adds the perfect touch of smoky caramel. It’s pret...

About this Wine: Grape variety: Chardonnay
Exposure: South South-East  Right Bank  
Soil: Kimmeridgian limestone  
Age of the vines: Around 15  years
Grape ha...

Wine Spectator: Shows a lot of blueberry and dried herb aromas and flavors. Full and juicy, with plenty of good fruit. Still chewy. Best after 2011. -JS

Wine Spectator: A round red, sporting cherry and plum flavors matched to a firm structure, followed by firm grip on the finish. This shows some power, along with a hint of clay or loam notes....

Alex Shaw: Dark red fruits of black cherry and macerated strawberry are prominent on the nose, which also shows more subtle notes of cranberry, freshly turned earth and a hint of eucalyp...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Merlot, on the other hand, is just plain delicious. The wine possesses notable depth and inner sweetness, with waves of dark fruit, chocolate, spices and French oak t...