Burghound: A reticent but elegant green fruit nose is primary but very fresh and solidly complex and leads to racy, intense and pure middle weight flavors that are textured, minerally an...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This big time sleeper of the vintage is a blend of 50% Merlot, 27% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Petit Verdot, and the rest Cabernet Franc. An outstanding effort, it boasts a dense ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Yellow-gold. Exotically perfumed, expressive bouquet of pear, white peach and melon, with toasted nuts and anise adding complexity. Dry and focused on the palate, displaying b...

Wine Spectator: Filled with vitality, this has subtle nuances of lanolin and yogurt around a vibrant core of lime and pineapple fruit, finishing dry, with impressive length. Drink now through...

Wine Spectator: Firm tannins underlie a smooth texture in this silky red. Black cherry, smoke, tar and mineral flavors are balanced and fresh, and this shows good focus and length. Drink now ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby-red. Cherry-vanilla and raspberry on the smoky, oak-spiced nose. Juicy and seamless on the palate, offering bright red fruit flavors and complicating notes of moch...

Wine Enthusiast: This gorgeous Carignano-based wine from the sun-drenched island of Sardinia shows amazing harmony and personality. There are rich and ripe notes here of blackberry, mature che...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Chardonnay is wonderfully nuanced and expressive. At once delicate, yet fully-flavored, the wine favors an expression of terroir over varietal flavors. This is a beau...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Quixote Petit Verdot reveals the greatest depth and layering. Backward on the palate, dense, and masculine, this lengthy, powerful wine will benefit from 3-4 years of...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Black fruits and licorice on the nose; a bit inkier and less expressive than the basic Clos des Andes. Then denser and deeper but less pliant in the mouth, wi...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ($35) Deep red. Pungent, mineral-driven aromas of raspberry, blackcurrant, potpourri and cured meat. Sweet and supple on the palate, offering vivid red and dark berry flavors,...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Collioure les Junquets is pungently scented with lavender, rosemary, and star anise, along with cassis and slightly detached notes of resin, spice, and vanilla from t...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The Mas Blanc 2006 Collioure Cosprons Levants is low-toned throughout, with diverse black fruits, dark chocolate and roasted meats tinged by crushed stone and iodine. This dis...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The pretty 2006 Chardonnay has an attractive ripe, buttery nose with Clementine and buttercups, the palate ripe and very expressive, bursting with tropical fruit such as mango...

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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2006 Evil Cabernet Sauvignon saw 25% of the wine aged in French oak. It reveals a fragrant bouquet of cedar and black cur...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Bitch Grenache is sourced from 40- to 60-year-old vines from the Ebenezer sub-region of the Barossa. With the price of Cotes du Rhone soaring due to the weak dollar, I am hard...

About this Wine: Grape varieties:  90% Merlot, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon, 5% Cabernet Franc....

Wine Spectator: There's lots of currant and blackberry in this, with hints of sandalwood. Full-bodied, with velvety tannins that turn chewy, but also a solid core of fruit underneath, with ne...

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...