About this Wine: The Melvilles are a serious viticultural family with an impeccable vineyard and top-notch wines, looked over with some consulting help from the dynamic duo of Greg Brewer an...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The non-vintage Rare Cream, Superior is a moderately sweet, pleasant Sherry. Do your old grandmother a favor and give her this sophisticated drink instead of Harvey's Bristol ...

James Suckling: It's a little close on the nose but the palate shows a lovely liveliness. Notes of mandarines and apricots on the palate. Round and tense. Medium sweet.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Crushed rocks, pears, white peaches and hints of earthiness are some of the nuances that emerge from Scubla's 2010 Friulano. There is an understated, weightless expression to ...

Wine Enthusiast: The winemaker pulled out all the bells and whistles, barrel fermenting this Chardonnay, putting it through partial malolactic fermentation, and aging it on the lees. The resul...

Wine Spectator: This is rich but crunchy, with Jonagold apple, salted butter and lemon green plum offset by tangy green almond, tarragon and fennel frond. The juicy, full-bodied finish manage...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A gorgeous blend of 60% Semillon and 40% Sauvignon Blanc, this wine is under the radar for most consumers. Delicious notes of honeydew melons, mandarin oranges, honeysuckle an...

Wine Spectator: Menthol and prune aromas and flavors highlight this intense, sweet dessert wine. It exhibits plenty of brightness and complexity, ending with butterscotch and bitter chocolate...

About this Wine: Named in honor of Ron Melville's mother, Verna's vineyard in Los Alamos is planted to seven acres of viognier on sandy and deficient soils and is a combination of Alban se...

Wine Spectator: Almost as excellent as the 2003. There's intense botrytis spice on the nose, with lemon peel and dried pineapple. Full-bodied, superspicy and intense. Extremely racy. A beauti...

Wine Spectator: Intense and vividly focused, with plenty of pungent grass and fresh thyme notes up front, revealing a fleshy, juicy core of peach, citrus and melon. A crisp, bright acidity c...

Wine Spectator: Equal parts delicious and intriguing, with spicy, smoky and floral notes. Meyer lemon, apricot and nectarine flavors end with a juicy, spicy finish, with touches of spice box ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Hints of mint and spruce resin pungently accent the fresh grapefruit and lime scents and flavors of Crochet's generic 2010 Sancerre whose sense of clarity, vivacity, and prima...

Wine Spectator: This amber dessert wine is rich and viscous on the palate, with date, fig, honey and clove notes. Intense and sweet, without being sugary. Drink now through 2020. -TM

Wine Front: Some sulphur, good fruit, peachy, zesty lemon, good acid, plenty of flint and drive. Like that it's a bit extra minerally, possibly because of the sulphur, but hey. Jumps on t...

Wine Spectator: This intense white offers a rocket beam of mouthwatering and fragrant Key lime, lemongrass and ripe peach flavors that are vibrant, juicy and wonderfully persistent on the fin...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The Kessler 2009 Silvaner-Riesling displays luscious apricot and pineapple tinged with oregano, lemon grass, and salt, and seemingly underlain by wet stone. There is a strikin...

Wine Spectator: This tangy wine has presence and depth, with a tart edge to the delicate sweetness, as apple and floral flavors linger on the finish. Drink now. -HS

Wine Enthusiast: Another in a string of great Sauvignon Blancs from Hall. The wine is richly textured in citrus, green apple and peach flavors, with a zingy hint of gooseberry. Acidity is cris...

About this Wine: The Tablas Creek Vineyard Côtes de Tablas Blanc is a blend of four estate-grown white Rhône varietals: Viognier, Grenache Blanc, Roussanne and Marsanne. The wine, like mos...