Wine Spectator: Pretty Cabernet Franc aromas of crushed berries and some milk chocolate. Medium- to full-bodied, with soft and silky tannins. Long sweet fruit on the finish. -JS

Wine Spectator: Fresh red currant, raspberry and cherry notes are laced with violet and blood orange. Brighter and higher-toned than most of its 2009 Pessac peers. Drink now through 2018. -JM

Wine Spectator: Juicy, with green plum and pear notes that are slightly shy at first, but emerge more on the finish, along with enticing straw and blanched almond hints. Solid length. Let thi...

Burghound: A pungent nose speaks of green fruit, resin and minerality that is trimmed in discreet wood notes that merge into round and attractively concentrated flavors that possess a bi...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Redcurrant, mocha and cedary, smoky oak on the ripe nose, with a hint of peppery lift. Lush, ripe and concentrated, offering a dense, thick texture for this w...

Wine Spectator: This has an old-school twinge, with bay leaf and alder notes leading the way for cassis bush, blackberry and tobacco flavors. There's lightly edgy grip, but this doesn't reall...

About this Wine: "a red fruity, spicy wine, a great complexity in aromas, well balanced between fruit and tannin, long at the palate, harmonious and fine."

About this Wine: History: This Côtes du Rhône takes its name from the 45th North parallel which runs two kilometres from the cellars of Maison Paul Jaboulet Aîné. In the village of Pont de l'I...

About this Wine: Soil: sand and silt with fine clay  ...

John Koutsulis: Straw yellow. With rich and spicy aromatics, the nose is big and oaky with intense pear and citrus. The palate is initially vibrant and juicy, extending towards a savory and s...

John Sweeney: Dark ruby at the core with a bright ruby rim. On the nose, this is textbook Bordeaux-black raspberry, cassis, wet rock, cedar and a touch of toasty oak. The palate is medium...

Wine Spectator: This has a good pebbly feel running through the mix of black cherry, red currant and lightly toasted spice hints. Ends with floral and iron flashes on the finish. Offers good ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: From Grenache, Carignan, and Syrah planted in a mixture of gneiss, schist, and chalk, and vinified half each in tank and barrel (demi-muids as well as barriques), the 2009 Cot...

Wine Spectator: Bright and jazzy, a taut style that delivers pineapple, grapefruit and lime blossom flavors, lingering easily on the refreshing finish. Drink now through 2019. 1,000 cases imp...

John Sweeney: A very dark, modern-styled Bordeaux indicating classic Derenoncourt flair. The bouquet offers generous red cherry, coffee, raspberry, and elegant wet stone minerality. Medium ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The old stand-by of Michel Tardieu is the 2009 Cotes du Rhone Guy Louis. This wine is about 60% Grenache and 40% Syrah, all coming from three sectors - Cairanne, Rasteau, and ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Rasteau Vieilles Vignes shows more powerful, masculinity, earthiness in a more rustic, rough-and-tumble style that will take several years to calm down in bottle, but...