Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Dark ruby. Strikingly aromatic and all over the olfactory map, offering notes of dark cherry, blackcurrant, graphite, violet, rose, Sen-Sen, licorice pastille, underbrush and ...

Wine Spectator: Dark and focused, with a brightly glowing core of currant, plum and blueberry flavors, wrapped in firm tannins that just need time to let it all show. Best from 2008 through 2...

About this Wine: 10% Merlot 5% Cabernet Franc

Wine Spectator: A polished, seductive style, offering rich black cherry and blackberry fruit that's ripe and well-defined, with an overlay of smoky, toasty oak, folding together nicely on the...

Wine Spectator: Firm, rich and intense, with a complex band of ripe currant, anise, nutmeg and black cherry fruit that slowly unfolds, revealing extra layers of concentration and depth and fi...

Wine Spectator: Smooth, rich and vibrant, with lively plum and blackberry fruit that's supple and concentrated, finishing with a burst of ripe fruit on the finish. Excellent balance--the tann...

Wine Spectator: This is a delicious Syrah, pure, rich, intense and concentrated, with a wonderful core of zesty black cherry, blackberry, wild berry and pretty fresh earth scents. Just when y...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ...Raspberry and strawberry fruit aromas complicated by mocha, baking spices and underbrush. Sweet but high-pitched, with firm acids giving shape to the flavors of red berries...

Wine Spectator: Intense, firmly tannic and richly concentrated. The flavors are built around vibrant currant, plum and floral notes, with cedar, nutmeg, chocolate and exotic spices filling in...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep ruby-red. Dark raspberry and black cherry aromas, lifted by minerals. Very suave on entry, then minerally and gripping in the middle, with a restrained sweetness and exce...

About this Wine: "Monbousquet is a blend of 60% Merlot, 30% Cabernet Franc and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon. The grapes are fermented in temperature-controlled, stainless steel tanks and the wine is...

About this Wine: This single vineyard wine was planted by Dave Powell in 1994 with cuttings off old RunRig vineyards.

Wine Spectator: A fantastic spätlese. Rich, succulent and harmonious, boasting peach, citrus and mineral aromas and flavors, all pure and displayed with finesse on a well-integrated structure...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Sporting 90 grams of residual sugar per liter, the 2001 Riesling Schlossberg Vendanges Tardives reveals sweetened, creamed tea and smoky botrytis aromas. Medium-bodied, plush,...

Wine Spectator: Lots of currants, berries and minerals on the nose, with a full-bodied palate, silky tannins and a long, long finish. Very well done. Pure Cab and always outstanding. Best aft...

Jancis Robinson: Some clay here. Blackish ruby. Hint of mushrooms on the nose - deeply satisfying. Hugely seductive top notes of spice. Real delicacy and energy with tannins starting to resolv...

Wine Spectator: ...extreme aromas of honey, candied lemons and mandarin oranges. Full-bodied, very sweet and concentrated. It goes on and on. Thick and rich. Loads of spicy, almost hot botryt...

Wine Spectator: Bold and structured red. Dark color; black licorice, raspberry and mineral character and hints of dried flowers; full-bodied, with spicy fruit and undertones of black pepper. ...

Wine Spectator: Super, with ripe plum and blackberry fruit supported by notes of briar, brick dust, tar and bacony smoke. Rich yet racy, with a powerful yet perfumy fruit- and dried herb-driv...

About this Wine: "... blend of 70% Merlot, 25% Cabernet Franc and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon...Michel Rolland has increased the percentage of new oak casks used in the maturation process and the wi...