Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby. Ripe red and dark berries on the nose, with hints of cherry syrup, licorice and black pepper adding complexity. Broad, fleshy and soft, with creamy dark plum, red...

Wine Spectator: A pure and very silky wine, with a gorgeous mix of damson plum, raspberry, black cherry and plum fruit, laced with graphite and black tea and followed by a long, incense-tinge...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape has oodles of black raspberry and kirsch notes intermixed with roasted Provencal herbs, licorice, and spice box. Medium to full bodied, dense, and...

Andy Frieden: Purple core with a deep garnet rim. Nose is suggestive of Bordeaux, with perfumed red and black fruit complemented by cherry blossom and underlying fresh earth and crushed roc...

About this Wine: This Colomé Malbec is produced mainly from pre-phylloxera vines planted in 1854. Bodega
Colomé vineyards are bio-dynamically and sustainably farmed at an alitude of 5,500 ...

Wine Enthusiast: The husband-and-wife team of Mike and Claire Allen have turned out 2,000 cases of this terrific value, which delivers authentic Pinot Noir complexity at an attractive price. B...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Proprietor Jean-Paul Dauman produced nearly 20,000 bottles of his brilliant 2009 Cotes du Rhone Clavin. Composed of 80% Grenache and the rest Cinsault, Mourvedre and Syrah, it...

Bob Campbell, MW: Impressive wine with more fruit sweetness and intensity than the Left Field label. Very seductive Syrah that delivers dark berry, plum and black pepper with energy and focus. ...

About this Wine: Tenuta Sette Ponti's first release was the 1998 vintage Crognolo, named after a wild bush, Cornus, which grows on the estate. The blend of Sangiovese and Merlot from vines...

About this Wine: Soil: clay and chalk, with characteristically rounded, huge stones.

Blend: Grenache is the dominant grape, followed by Syrah and Cinsault.

Burghound: A perfumed and very pinot nose displays only traces of warm earth that also characterize the round, supple, forward and already accessible flavors that culminate in an attract...

Wine Spectator: Fleshy and smoky, with enticing mesquite, tobacco and iron notes weaving through the large core of fig and blackberry fruit. The long, smoldering finish has some serious grip ...

Wine Spectator: Dark and juicy, with a lovely espresso and tobacco frame to the dark fig, cassis and violet core. Long and rich through the finish, but with graphite-led cut that adds serious...

Wine Spectator: A textbook version of the ripe, modern style, with a core of plum, linzer torte and black currant fruit backed by toasty spice and melted licorice note. A nice tug of roasted ...

About this Wine: Syrah (40%) and Grenache (60%)
Average age of vines: 20 - 35 years old

Wine Spectator: Dark and toasty, exhibiting a coffee edge to the plum sauce, blueberry, black currant and anise flavors. A cocoa powder note lingers on the full-bodied finish, which has a fin...

Wine Spectator: This is still slightly reticent, with a pronounced iron minerality holding sway over the supple cherry and black currant fruit. The lovely violet and black tea aromas fill in ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Inky ruby. Spicy cherry and blackberry aromas, with an energetic floral note adding complexity and tangy mineral providing lift. Silky and sweet, with sappy berry liqueur an...