Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. A complex, heady bouquet evokes candied red fruits, potpourri and Asian spices. Silky and seamless in texture, offering vibrant raspberry and bitter cherry ...

Wine Spectator: Silky and briary, with lots of pepper, savory and tobacco notes coursing along, while a hint of shiso leaf separates them from the blackberry and black currant confiture flavo...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The brilliant 2010 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Rasteau La Fontaine is aged in a combination of tank and 600-liter demi-muids. Off the charts concentration and a bigger than life p...

Tracey Rose: Saturated dark purple color. 70% grenache and 30% syrah. Brooding nose exhibits inky aromas of truffle and cigar box. A monster for this region with big and bold flavors of bl...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby. An intensely perfumed bouquet evokes dried cherry, cassis, potpourri and smoked meat, with a spicy nuance adding vivacity. Rich but energetic on the palate, offer...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Inky purple. Heady, explosive aromas of black raspberry and blueberry preserves, garrigue and incense, with smoky mineral and anise accents. Lush and palate-coating, offerin...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape Tradition exhibits elegant blueberry and black raspberry fruit, hints of burning charcoal and Provencal herbs, and good acidity in its full-bodied...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The massive 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape Cuvee La Parte des Anges reveals huge extraction, abundant new oak, and an intense, full style. While there is a tendency to call this mod...

About this Wine: While Michel Chapoutier produces some of the world's greatest wines from single parcels of old vines spread throughout the northern and southern Rhone (see my ecstatic rev...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid ruby. A heady, seductive bouquet evokes black raspberry and cherry liqueur, potpourri and allspice, with a bright mineral overtone. Shows impressive clarity and energy...

Wine Spectator: Large-scaled but poised, pure and driven, with beautiful mocha and dark linzer torte aromas giving way to lush blueberry, plum and boysenberry compote notes. The finish lets g...

About this Wine: Soil type: Quaternary stony soil with deposits.
Parcels located on the lower terraced lands of the
Gigondas Appellation. Parcels located on the Plan de Dieu Appelation,...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby. Sexy, spice- and mineral-accented aromas of red and dark fruit preserves and garrigue. Juicy and expansive on the palate, offering vibrant black raspberry and b...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: There were no problems with the opaque ruby/purple-tinged 2010 Chateauneuf du Pape, which had just been bottled. This exotic red boasts notes of black truffles, roasted meats,...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Inky purple. Heady, explosive aromas of black raspberry and blueberry preserves, garrigue and incense, with smoky mineral and anise accents. Lush and palate-coating, offerin...

About this Wine: While Michel Chapoutier produces some of the world's greatest wines from single parcels of old vines spread throughout the northern and southern Rhone (see my ecstatic rev...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid ruby. A heady, seductive bouquet evokes black raspberry and cherry liqueur, potpourri and allspice, with a bright mineral overtone. Shows impressive clarity and energy...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Inky purple. Heady, explosive aromas of black raspberry and blueberry preserves, garrigue and incense, with smoky mineral and anise accents. Lush and palate-coating, offerin...

Wine Spectator: A bold, ripe, almost heady style, with thickly layered blueberry, fig and boysenberry fruit laced with mouthwatering spice and melted black licorice, followed by a long, fruit...