Wine Spectator: Offers a mix of cedar, cherry, licorice and tobacco aromas and flavors, all married to a medium-weight, compact frame. Tightens up on the finish, yet there's fine intensity an...

About this Wine: Production (maximum) : 30, 000 bottles                       ...

Wine Spectator: This wine shows an incredible concentration of fruit, with loads of berries and spices on the nose. Full-bodied, with soft and silky tannins and lots of smoky character. Goes ...

Wine Spectator: An elegant California Cabernet, ripe and smooth, showcasing bright, complex black cherry, currant, plum and spicy notes, finishing with well-integrated tannins...

Wine Spectator: Thick, dark, dense and concentrated, this packs a wallop with intensely flavored, firmly tannic currant, earth and cedar notes. So young it tastes like a barrel sample, but it...

Wine Spectator: Gold color. Loads of dried pineapple and apple, with honey and melons as well on the nose. Full-bodied, medium sweet, with lots of dried fruits on the palate. Long and lively....

About this Wine: "A beautiful svelte nose : jammy cherry toasty fruit. Still much too closed but with masses of powerful blackcherry. Sweet & pure. Well-integrated tannins...second wine of Leo...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque ruby. A pungent, exotically perfumed bouquet displays blackcurrant, anise and smoky Indian spices, along with a sexy floral overtone. Sappy, penetrating dark berry flav...

Wine Spectator: Blackberry, licorice and blueberry aromas lead to a medium- to full-bodied palate, with fine tannins and a clean finish. Firm and attractive. Best after 2014. -JS

Wine Spectator: This rich, alluring red is packed with black fruit flavors framed by sweet, toasty oak. Despite its thick texture and full tannins, it remains lively and even graceful. Modern...

Wine Spectator: Pretty grapey, blackberry and light plum aromas. Full-bodied, with medium sweetness, this Port builds on your palate with velvety tannins and a sweet finish. Balanced and well...

About this Wine: "Fonseca vintage ports are renowned for their great fruit richness and voluptuousness, and, while powerful and mouthfilling, for their breed and balance. In the context of ea...

About this Wine: This wine honors long-time Shafer Winemaker Elias Fernandez and his relentless pursuit of quality. Sourced from ridgetop and foothills vineyards adjacent to the southern borde...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2003 Shiraz Oracle may be even better than the 2002. Treated identically to the 2002, but even more powerful, dense, and long, with slightly higher alcohol, this monster e...

About this Wine: "...intense and complex bouquet, with peach, apricot, mango candied white fruit, honey, vanilla, elderflower, and sugar candy and lily of the valley aromas. Full on the palate...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Ratcheting up the level of concentration, complexity, and persistence in the mouth is the 2002 Merlot Vintner's Select (400 cases). An opulent, heady wine that reveals gorgeou...

About this Wine: "This estate's most renowned offering is their old vine Shiraz (90+ year old vines) called The Dead Arm. The unfined/unfiltered 1999 The Dead Arm Shiraz (2,000 cases) was aged...

Wine Spectator: Very well done. Gorgeous aromas of raspberry, cherry and flowers. Medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a long, caressing finish...

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 Spectator: A rich, beautiful wine. Dark color, with blackberry, smoky and coffee aromas. Full-bodied and very firm, with silky tannins and a caressing finish. Muscular...