About this Wine: "While Conn Valley have long been known for their 100% Estate Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, they are fast becoming known for their Pinot Noir as well as their artfully crafted b...

Wine Enthusiast: Nervy and textured, this is a wine under tension. It is crisp with acidity, with lots of bright green-fruit and citrus flavors. This is complex and age worthy, bringing out th...

Wine Spectator: Pure, rich and layered, with tiers of blackberry, wild berry, black licorice and mocha flavors. Impressive for its suppleness, yet this has a firm backbone as well, flexing it...

Wine Enthusiast: A signature wine for Girardin, this is powerful and rich, with apricot, quince and green plum fruits that are layered within the taut texture. A toast note rounds out this com...

About this Wine: Riesling is the prized grape of Alsace and also holds a special place at Domaine Weinbach. The domain's Rieslings have a fine and delicate fruitiness, tend to be racy, nervy, ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Redcurrant and spices on the nose, with hints of smoke, game and tobacco. A step up in intensity and concentration from the Chevrets, with enticing sweetness ...

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...

Wine Spectator: Elegant, this red is full of spice, currant, balsamic and soy aromas and flavors. The texture is supple and the structure well-integrated, offering firm support and a lingerin...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby! Knockout high-pitched nose offers blackberry, dark raspberry, spices, licorice, bitter chocolate and violet, plus a note of crushed stone. Silky and highly concentr...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Perfumed, complex aromas and flavors of pineapple, soft citrus fruit and smoky, flinty minerality. Rich, sweet and deep; really saturates the mouth and builds on the back end...

Wine Spectator: A rich version for the vintage, opulent even, boasting cherry, preserved beet, plum, vanilla and clove notes. Solid, with fine concentration and sappiness midpalate, ending in...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Musky, highly complex aromas of lemon, lime and hazelnut. Sweet on entry, then impressively tensile in the middle palate, offering superb intensity to its citrus, spice and mi...

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...

About this Wine: As I have written many times, all of these wines are produced from rigidly cultivated, bio-dynamically managed vineyards. That has been the rule since Michel Chapoutier fi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A pungent suggestion of diverse hedge flowers and high-toned herbs rises from the glass of Dagueneau 2010 Blanc Fume de Pouilly Silex; then migrates to a palate dominated by s...

Wine Spectator: An open-throttle Syrah that's pure, rich and powerful, with a potent mix of dense plum, blackberry, blueberry and dried herb holding a tight focus and gaining depth through th...

Wine Spectator: Dark, ripe and inviting raspberry, blackberry and boysenberry flavors glide along seamlessly, all framed by toasty vanilla bean and melted red licorice. The solidly built fini...

Wine Spectator: Very enticing, with roasted herb, olive and spice notes flittering in front of darker pastis, blackberry paste and briar notes. The long, grippy finish is iron-driven, with a ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright violet. Expansive bouquet shows boysenberry and blueberry liqueur, Moroccan spices, violet and woodsmoke. Lush, seductively sweet black and blue fruit flavors stain t...

Wine Spectator: Beautifully proportioned, with a rich mix of currant, blackberry, dried herb, mocha, cedar and tobacco flavors. This is also very tightly structured, worthy of a long decant o...