About this Wine:  Barolo Le Vigne is often a dark and impenetrable wine in its youth, where the tannins and structure from the Monforte vineyard sites make the wine less approachable. Wit...

Wine Spectator: Delivers a tight beam of rich, complex flavors, with currant, black licorice, loamy earth, cedar and tobacco leaf notes that expand on the finish, where this maintains its f...

Wine Spectator: This white is intense in aroma, firm in structure and complex in flavor. Lemon zest, yellow plum and floral notes build around a core of mineral as it develops and changes acr...

Wine Spectator: A rich, opulent style, delivering ripe black cherry, mineral and oak spice flavors. This is supple and inviting, with firm, well-integrated tannins for structure. Spice and li...

Eddie Wolowski: Bright carmine-hued core, with a light, nearly clear rim. Zesty red fruit and spring flowers immediately pop from the glass. Notes of ripe strawberry, Bing cherry and raspberr...

About this Wine: The Brunello Riserva Poggio Antico is only produced in exceptional vintages. In those years the grapes from the oldest and lowest altitude vineyard are processed and aged sepa...

Wine Spectator: This has a touch more muscle and drive than many of its peers, with smoldering tobacco and dark espresso notes leading the way for a core of crushed plum, braised fig and stee...

About this Wine:  Barolo Le Vigne is often a dark and impenetrable wine in its youth, where the tannins and structure from the Monforte vineyard sites make the wine less approachable. Wit...

Wine Spectator: Very solid, with a dark black fruit profile of currant, blackberry and fig framed by roasted alder wood and backed by bittersweet ganache and mouthwatering briar notes on the ...

Wine Spectator: This red exudes cherry, licorice, violet and tar aromas and flavors married to a firm, vibrant structure. Shuts down a little at midpal - ate, but the sweet fruit comes bac...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Deep red-ruby. Knockout nose combines black raspberry, licorice, smoky minerality and complex earth tones. Superripe, rich and full but suave, with ripe acidity framing the co...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright medium red. Medicinal red fruits and a hint of menthol on the nose. Sweet, dense and sappy on the palate, with urgent, soil-driven flavors of raspberry, pepper, spice...

Wine Enthusiast: This is a floral wine that combines structure, firm acidity and intensely ripe fruit. Flavors of green fruit, citrus, toast and some smoke give complexity to this concentrated...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Two of the most impressive wines in these tastings, both of Dunn's 1986s tasted like 3-4-year old Cabernets rather than 10-year old adolescents. The 1986 Cabernet Sauvignon Na...

Burghound: This is much more elegant and more complex as well with a lightly spiced red pinot fruit and earth-suffused nose that complements the silky-textured middle weight flavors that...

Wine Spectator: Dark in profile and rather stolid, with a beam of currant, plum and fig allied to a prominent iron shaft that clamps down on the charcoal-textured finish. Showing rather auste...

Wine Spectator: This has depth for the vintage, with plum sauce, violet, blackberry and mulled cherry notes laced with incense and graphite. The long finish has a nice velvety feel, with a bu...

Wine Spectator: Boasting cherry, raspberry and a hint of gamy, forest floor detritus, this red cruises with its vibrant structure. This is harmonious, just needs more time to integrate. The f...

About this Wine: "The 2001 Rudd Oakville Estate is the second vintage from the newly replanted vineyard at the corner of Oakville Crossroad and Silverado Trail. The vineyard is planted in rock...

Wine Spectator: Sweet spice notes are matched by a beam of cherry in this broad, rich red, which is big and chunky rather than complex, with moderate length. Best from 2011 through 2021. 35 c...