Wine Spectator: Fresh and vibrant, this is nicely framed, offering a juicy mouthful of pear, apple sauce, cinnamon and tobacco flavors, lingering on the jazzy finish. Drink now through 2017. ...

Wine Front: Classic lemon and lime, touch of perfume, dry but juicy sweet, even twisting some melons and green mango. Superb length with a taut dry minerally close. Textbook. So good is i...

Wine Spectator: Ripe, layered and structured, with floral scents to the pure dark berry, spice and cedar notes, ending with a measure of elegance and grace amid fine-grained, minerally tannin...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Perfumed, high-toned aromas of red and dark berries, pungent spicy oak and flowers. Youthfully tight and not showing its flesh today, with a peppery quality co...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby-red. Exotically perfumed bouquet of ripe red fruits, Asian spices, lavender and cola. Pliant, sweet and lithe, offering intense raspberry, bitter cherry and flor...

Wine Spectator: Bright and jazzy, with a smoky edge to the tart blackberry and cherry flavors, picking up a licorice note on the finish. Has complexity and balance, and cellaring should bring...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Eneo is impressive for its sensual personality and overall finesse. Dark red cherries, flowers, licorice, tobacco and flowers all come together beautifully in the gla...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Very deep purple-black colored, the 2009 Autograph Shiraz is intensely scented of creme de cassis, black cherry preserves and dried plums with hints of fruit cake, baking spic...

Wine Enthusiast: A Blend of 64% Merlot and 27% Cabernet Franc, with splashes of Malbec and Peite Verdot, this is built for the long haul. Raspberries, cherries and rich Chocolate run through t...

Wine Front: We're late to come to this - the 2007 may even have been released? - but now that I don't live in Melbourne it can be difficult to get ahold of a Craiglee. I've had this relea...

Wine Spectator: An austere, sinewy style, exhibiting strawberry, tea, white pepper, eucalyptus and iron flavors. It's all underscored by dense, dusty tannins, with plenty of grip on the tight...

Wine Enthusiast: Gramona is known for yeasty, complex sparklers, and this falls into that paradigm. The nose is definitely yeasty, with apple and green melon aromas. It's a bit soft for Cava, ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2008 Cortona Syrah Il Bosco comes across as quite focused and primary in this vintage, with layers of black fruit lurking beneath a wall of imposing tannin. The 2008 is a ...

Wine Spectator: Riveting acidity carries the sweet pea, māche, chalk and kaffir lime notes in this superracy, light-bodied version.-J.M.

Wine Enthusiast: From Tuscany's celebrated Frescobaldi wine family, Brunello Castelgiocondo opens with dark, inky concentration and bold aromas of pressed rose, black cherry, exotic spice, lea...

Wine Front: Lots of everything. Mint, bourboned oak, sage and dill, black fruit, licorice, some pepper. Full bodied, plenty of weight and scale, at 15.5 it holds its booze well - would no...

Wine Front: This is a wine with a very pretty face. It's perfumed and fruity, kissed seductively by smoky French oak and not at all dense - all its flavours seem up front, and on show. Pl...

Wine Spectator: A big, rich style, boasting plum, soy and tobacco aromas and flavors. Features good acidity and firm tannins that bode well for development, with just a touch of heat on the f...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Dark ruby. Aromas and flavors of dark fruit liqueur and candied licorice, with an exotic floral pastille quality gaining power with air. Broad and chewy in texture, with imp...

Wine Spectator: Mouthfilling, with deliciously intense anise, blackberry compote and plum pāte de fruit notes backed by lots of well-integrated briar and iron notes. The long, racy finish has...