Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Glass-staining ruby. Pungent, spice-accented aromas of red fruit compote, cherry pit and fresh flowers. Juicy and sharply focused, offering gently sweet black raspberry and ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Saturated ruby. Aromas of cassis, cherry compote, black olive and mocha, with a spicy topnote. Sappy and expansive, offering intense dark berry preserve flavors lifted and ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good deep red. Very reduced aromas of black raspberry, licorice and game. Rich, smoky and very fine-grained, with impressive concentration and density to its dark fruit flav...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good red-ruby. Black raspberry, smoke and a whiff of exotic fruits on the nose. Silky and fine-grained, with a lush texture given clarity and lift by nicely integrated acidi...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Wild aromas of blackberry, chocolate and meat are considerably less expressive today than those of the Bressandes. Broad and large-scaled but backward, show...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good bright, dark red. Medicinal black cherry, mocha and mint on the nose, accented by herbs and pepper. At once sweet and a bit medicinal on the palate, with roasted red be...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Dark purple. Smoked meat, cherry pit, cassis and licorice on the pungent, mineral-accented nose. Chewy, penetrating bitter cherry and dark berry flavors show a medicinal qu...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light, bright yellow-gold. Exotically perfumed nose offers passion fruit, pear skin and tangerine, with complicating notes of jasmine and quinine. Seamless, silky and pure, w...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light yellow. Exotic, heady aromas of dried pit fruits, jasmine, marzipan and candied citrus peel, with a bright mineral overtone. Juicy and expansive on entry, then more ta...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Light, bright gold. Powerful aromas of lime zest, pear skin, white flowers and quinine. Juicy, intense and deep, with chewy orchard and citrus fruit flavors and bright spici...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid yellow. An exotically perfumed bouquet displays scents of poached pear, honey, smoky herbs and lemon zest. Rich but energetic on the palate, offering spicy orchard and...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full medium red. Strawberry, minerals and gunflint on the nose. Extremely suave for the vintage, and fuller than usual for this cuvee, offering sweet but crunchy flavor...

Burghound: This is notably more refined aromatically than the Beaux Bruns with a pure and relatively high-toned nose composed primarily of various red berries with hints of plum and viol...

Burghound: ...the underlying fruit does appear ripe and this impression is corroborated by the clear phenolic maturity of the supporting structural elements that are firm but not hard on...

Burghound: Note: from 50+ year old vines and vinified with <35% whole clusters in 2011. There is generous wood with plenty of floral influence to the agreeably fresh plum, violet and cas...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid ruby. Pungent, textbook syrah aromas of dark berry preserves, olive tapenade, violets and anise, with a smoky overtone. Sappy and precise, offering chewy black raspberr...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid ruby-red. Raspberry, cherry-vanilla and floral aromas are lifted by a spicy nuance. Juicy and penetrating, displaying very good depth and focus. Sweet red and dark be...

Wine Spectator: A big, broad-shouldered style, with lots of bittersweet cocoa and coffee up front, followed by thick-textured blackberry and black currant fruit. Shows a bit more brute force ...

Wine Spectator: Very ripe, but also very focused, with a distilled raspberry essence racing from start to finish, while extra licorice snap, blueberry coulis and plum pāte de fruit notes fill...

Wine Spectator: This has aromatic range and depth of fruit, offering enticing dark currant, plum and blackberry notes that show lots of savory herb and racy chalk notes, with a long, gravelly...