Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This lighter-styled, but complex, finely tuned effort reveals notes of cedar, dried herbs, spice, smoke, sweet cherry and cur...

Wine Spectator: Balanced, with a rich, toasty character, bright acidity and subtle notes of lemon curd, cream, quince paste and fleur de sel. Ends with a firm, minerally finish. Drink now thr...

Wine Enthusiast: Brooding and mysterious, this is a serious wine that deserves a serious steak to go with it. Dark and ripe with dominant notes of black licorice followed by black berries, plu...

Burghound: Curiously for a wine coming from a vineyard of considerable altitude, this is quite ripe with a liqueur-like nose of extract of red pinot fruit that is at once cool and elegan...

About this Wine: "A very consistent vineyard, which always has very dark colour and black plum fruit with a gamey, leathery background. This has more to do with Cornas or Hermitage."

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate:  The exceptional 1996 Shiraz/Cabernet Sauvignon Mountain Blue (90% Shiraz and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon) exhibits a thick-l...

Wine Spectator: A rich, seductive style, with ripe red currant and black currant flavors, hints of plum and cherry along with a nice dash of cedary lead pencil-laced oak. Gains complexity on ...

Wine Spectator: Dark, rich and exotic, with oak-framed plum, currant and wild berry, this wine shows a measure of finesse and complexity, turning beefy and firm, with austere tannins. Best fr...

About this Wine: Soil: clay and chalk, with characteristically rounded, huge stones.

Blend: Grenache is the dominant grape, followed by Syrah and Cinsault.

Wine Spectator: Very bright, stony style, with lime, green apple, mineral and floral notes that stay fresh and mouthwatering through the finish. Drink now through 2010. 200 cases made. -JM

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: In total contrast, the 2009 Cotes du Rhone Coudoulet red represents the essence of Provence in its notes of ground pepper, new saddle leather, lavender, kirsch, garrigue, and ...

Burghound: A very ripe, indeed even exotic nose with the hallmark spiciness of a classic Genevrières introduces rich, minerally and attractively detailed middle weight flavors that are d...

About this Wine: Coyam is the word for "Oak Forrest" used by the original inhabitants of Chile: The Mapuches. Ancient oaks surround the vineyard where Coyam is born.

About this Wine: Archery Summit's search to produce world-class Pinot Noir led them to the Dundee Hills of Oregon.  Premier Cuvée, the proprietary blend, is made from both the oldest ...

Burghound: This is notably ripe with dried white and yellow orchard fruit aromas that run right up to the edge of exoticism yet there is enough Chablis character to be convincing as to t...

Wine Spectator: Solid for the vintage, with a good core of anise, mulled plum, boysenberry and fig, all laced with sweet spice and roasted apple wood notes. The nicely rounded finish has ampl...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Palate-staining plum and cherry dusted with cardamom and cinnamon in Chauvenet's 2008 Nuits-St.-Georges Les Charmottes marry the cut and vivacity typical of its vintage with c...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid ruby. Pungent aromas of red and dark berry skin, lavender and anise, with a spicy overtone. Blackberry and bitter cherry flavors show good depth and energy, with no ro...

About this Wine: Established in 1986, this is the second wine of Chateau Gazin,

Wine Spectator: Rich and full of oak spice and apple pie flavors, with a touch of grapefruit. This is even a little tannic, leaving a pleasant astringency on the finish. Best from 2012 throug...