Wine Spectator: This generous red offers ripe plum, espresso and smoke flavors that are firm and rather charry, with a tobacco and tar finish. Bold yet smooth. Best from 2013 through 2019.

Wine Spectator: Black cherry, espresso, sanguine and anise flavors mingle in this chewy red. It has a dark, brooding character enlivened by fresh acidity. Assertive tannins take over on the f...

Wine Spectator: A balanced and easy young wine, with cool, clean and minerally fruit character, firm tannins and a medium finish

Wine Spectator: Nicely polished, featuring dark plum and currant flavors laced with cocoa powder and roasted vanilla bean notes, which extend through the finish. Drink now through 2013. -JM

Wine Spectator: Long and racy, with lovely range to the blueberry, cassis and raspberry fruit, followed by a long, sweet spice-filled finish. A racy graphite edge cuts underneath, adding leng...

Wine Spectator: This is ripe and polished, with sleek cassis and blackberry fruit framed with toasty mocha and espresso hints, but also nicely grounded in terroir, with a tug of roasted earth...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Another sleeper of the vintage, the opaque ruby/purple-tinged 2009 l'Estang exhibits lots of sweet black currant and black cherry fruit intermixed with a hint of vanillin. Med...

Wine Spectator: Subtle tobacco and roasted mesquite notes lead the way, followed by mulled plum and fig fruit and a fleshy but stylish finish that lets the fruit stretch out nicely. Drink now...

Wine Spectator: A ripe, fleshy, smoky style, with lots of fig and plum fruit pushed by roasted tobacco leaf and warm bittersweet cocoa notes. The finish lets ganache and linzer torte hang on ...

Wine Spectator: Fresh red currant, raspberry and cherry notes are laced with violet and blood orange. Brighter and higher-toned than most of its 2009 Pessac peers. Drink now through 2018. -JM

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Redcurrant, mocha and cedary, smoky oak on the ripe nose, with a hint of peppery lift. Lush, ripe and concentrated, offering a dense, thick texture for this w...

Wine Spectator: Dark in aroma and fleshy in feel, but open-knit overall, with enticing tobacco, fig and mulled black currant fruit carried by a loam hint through the broad finish. Drink now t...

Wine Spectator: This has good flesh, with a lilac note giving way to dark mulled plum and linzer torte flavors, studded with black tea and roasted spice hints. Shows nice drive on the finish....

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Dense ruby/purple, with an unctuously sweet kiss of blackberry jam intermixed with raspberries, cherries, licorice, incense and forest floor, the complex aromatics are followe...

James Suckling: Blueberry and fresh mushrooms, with hints of earth. Medium-to-full body, with medium chewy tannins and a medium finish. A little austere. Second wine of Cantermerle, which mad...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Redcurrant, mocha and cedary, smoky oak on the ripe nose, with a hint of peppery lift. Lush, ripe and concentrated, offering a dense, thick texture for this w...

Wine Spectator: This is polished and open, with a core of juicy plum, briar and black cherry fruit. Nicely rounded through the finish and accessible now. Drink now through 2018. –JM

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Long-time readers know d'Aurilhac is one of my favorite under-the-radar Bordeaux in top vintages. This impressively made Medoc offers a lot of quality for its price. The 2009 ...

Wine Spectator: A forward style, with dark cassis, blackberry and black cherry notes spiked with a hint of damson plum. Long and velvety through the finish, with hints of black tea and tobacc...

Wine Spectator: This has an old-school twinge, with bay leaf and alder notes leading the way for cassis bush, blackberry and tobacco flavors. There's lightly edgy grip, but this doesn't reall...