Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good deep red. Wild, soil-driven perfume of raspberry, minerals and white truffle. Silky, dense and tangy, with superb energy to balance the almost confectionery sweetness. In...

Wine Spectator: Broad shouldered style, with dark charcoal and ganache notes fronting for the core of roasted fig, plum sauce and warm black currant confiture. Rich and smoky through the fini...

About this Wine:  Barolo Le Vigne is often a dark and impenetrable wine in its youth, where the tannins and structure from the Monforte vineyard sites make the wine less approachable. Wit...

Wine Spectator: Well-balanced and vivacious, with rich, ripe flavors of quince paste, marzipan and candied orange peel mixing with lively acidity. A hint of smoke lingers on the moderate fini...

Wine Spectator: Captivating, with Lapsang souchong tea and incense flavors up front, followed by creamy-textured plum and fig sauce, blackberry preserve and ganache notes, which sail through ...

Wine Spectator: This is dense but silky around the edges, with crushed plum and black currant fruit lined with roasted vanilla bean, tobacco and loam notes. Everything hangs solidly through t...

Wine Spectator: Really silky for an '03, with gorgeous raspberry ganache and cassis fruit that glides atop grilled herb, mineral and tar flavors. Long, authoritative finish shows lots of grip...

Wine Spectator: A generous Sangiovese, with loads of blackberry, dark cherry and berry on the nose and palate. Full, long and chewy. The new wood could stand to have a little less barley flav...

Wine Spectator: Quite juicy, with a mouthwatering edge to the damson plum, mulled cherry and red currant fruit. Modest acidity, fine-grained tannins and flashy spice and iron notes drive the ...

About this Wine: "Taylor's finest and rarest wine, the very pinnacle of port. Only in a year when everything is perfect does Taylor's `declare' a vintage. With the company's reputation at stak...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright red-ruby. Lovely, perfumed aromas of raspberry, redcurrant, mocha, cedar and tobacco. Silky-sweet and classy, with excellent vinosity and grip. This wine has put on wei...

Wine Spectator: The initial whiff of new leather and toasty oak is appealing, though this is a bit tight on the palate, taking time for the zesty wild berry, currant and black cherry flavors ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good ruby-red. Superripe aromas of currant and oaky caramel. Supple, sweet and fresh, with rather suave flavors of currant and black raspberry. Nicely integrated acidity and a...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: While the bottled 2000 still reveals a certain sternness in addition to tough tannin, it is sweeter and more expansive and flavorful. The dark ruby/purple color is saturated a...

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...

Wine Enthusiast: A youthful, exciting wine that offers plenty of earth and cassis. It seems tight and closed now, with packed in tannins, a condensed mouthfeel and some mild green pepper note...

Connoisseurs' Guide: Of the three outstanding new Cabernets from Diamond Creek, this particular bottling is the most backward and slow-to-unfold of the bunch. With dense, highly extracted curranty...

Wine Spectator: Beautifully textured, this dense, firm red is thick with ripe fruit flavors, accented with tar, spice and earth. It's balanced and long. Approachable now...

Wine Spectator: Deliciously complex, rich and concentrated, with tiers of ripe currant, blackberry, black cherry, wild berry and spice. Sharply focused and deftly balanced, the tannins are ri...

Wine Spectator: Stylish, with vanilla, spice and cherry aromas and flavors, very silky texture and a long vanilla finish. Drinkable now.--The Bordeaux 50. –JS