Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Perrot-Minot's 2008 Clos Vougeot Vieilles Vignes - racked to tank two weeks before I tasted it - smells of purple plum, dark cherry, and charred red meat. Graphite, crushed st...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The Perrot-Minot 2008 Nuits-St.-Georges La Richemone Vieilles Vignes delivers scents and flavors of tart but ripe blackberry, Maine blueberry, machine oil, and licorice. Firml...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Clover, honey, lemon, and chalk dust rise from the glass of Deux Montille 2006 Batard-Montrachet. Remarkably bright, lean, refined and full of primary fruit juiciness on the p...

Wine Spectator: Dense, with good mouthfeel, offering notes of velvety, warm raspberry and boysenberry confiture. Kept lively by enticing spice, anise, bergamot and mandarin orange hints. The ...

Wine Spectator: Still a bit compact, with blueberry coulis, fig and blackberry paste notes tightly wound, backed by tangy black licorice, singed apple wood and tar on the finish, which featur...

Wine Spectator: An aromatic, spiced Champagne, boasting honeyed flavors of fig paste, candied orange peel and ginger bread. Rich but balanced by racy acidity and a spicy undertow, this shows ...

Wine Spectator: Very ripe and flattering, with loads of linzer torte, cassis and crushed cherry fruit, but well-supported by notes of cocoa, graphite and toasty spice. The finish is long and ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ($135; 100% mataro) Glass-staining ruby. Powerful scents of blackcurrant, dark cherry, olive tapenade and incense, with a musky herbal undertone. Broad, palate-staining dark b...

James Suckling: A wine that makes you happy, with strawberry, plums and citrus under tones. Full and velvety, with lovely ripe tannins and lively acidity. Better in 2013.

Burghound: A highly floral and white orchard fruit nose is trimmed in soft oak aromas that give way to rich, powerful, concentrated and delicious medium-bodied flavors that possess excel...

About this Wine: "With twenty vintages under his belt, Michel Chapoutier and his impressive winemaking staff go from strength to strength. These are among the world's greatest wines, especia...

Wine Spectator: ...seductive wine, with lush flavors. Wonderfully deep ruby in color, with rosemary, tomato and earth aromas, full-bodied, focused raspberry and chocolate flavors, silky tanni...

Wine Spectator: Broad and structured, with sweet cherry and oak spice notes reinforced by burly tannins. This is rigid now, with fruit and mineral wrestling with the tannins on the finish. Be...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Palish medium red. Musky aromas of redcurrant, iron and smoked meat. Rich and lush on entry, then sweet in the middle, with a slightly decadent quality to the fruit. The wine'...

Wine Spectator: A tight, linear style, with wild berry, cherry and herb notes around a mineral core. Firmly structured, with a sinewy profile and a dry finish. Best from 2013 through 2024. 22...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: ...the finest I have ever tasted.

Wine Spectator: Pretty lemon, dried flowers and dried citrus fruits on the nose. Full-bodied, with medium acidity and a lemony, white pepper and fruit finish. Best after 2005. -JS

Neal Martin's Wine Journal: The Pensées de Lafleur is a blend of 54% Merlot and 46% Cabernet Franc picked 17th and 22nd September respectively. Baptiste told me that a new plot of Cabernet Franc that was...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium red-ruby. Complex aromas and flavors of red and black cherry, dark plum, mocha, licorice pastille, tar and hot rocks. Supple, suave and broad but not overly swee...

About this Wine: Its firm, well-rounded tannins offer a smoothness ever present over the years. Being highly concentrated, it can be left to age  for many years...