Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Le Vieux Donjon's 1999 Chateauneuf du Pape offers soaring aromas of barbecue spice, licorice, herbs, tar, black cherries, and blackberries. This powerful, rich, full-bodied ef...

Wine Spectator: Intense aromas of crushed raspberries, minerals and lilacs. Medium- to full-bodied, with firm, yet very silky tannins and a long berry and vanilla aftertaste. Very fine indeed...

John Gilman: The lovely 2010 Petits Monts from Domaine Georges Noëllat was raised in fifty percent new oak and was showing quite well at the time of my visit in March, wafting from the gla...

Wine Spectator: Extremely youthful, with plum, black cherry and currant aromas and flavors galore. Very dark colored, with firm tannins and a long, flavorful finish. Each time we taste this i...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Palish red. Redcurrant, cherry, spices, minerals and a whiff of game on the nose. Sweet, silky and fairly deep, offering a fine-grained texture and very good energy and inte...

About this Wine: "...Togni noted that this wine is now typically about 82% cabernet sauvignon, with about 15% merlot, 2% cabernet franc and 1% petit verdot added since the '99 vintage."

Wine Spectator: Offers a pretty burst of ripe plum and black cherry fruit to accompany the herb, sage, dusty berry and loamy earth flavors. Ends with a complex aftertaste and hints of anise a...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ($235) Good dark red. Reticent nose hints at medicinal black cherry. Then cool but ripe in the mouth, with sweet, sappy flavors of black cherry and licorice. Finishes tannic b...

Wine Spectator: Very muscular with currants, mineral and nutmeg character. Full-bodied and chewy, with a long and lively finish. Best after 2008. 29,165 cases made. –JS

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Powerful but reticent aromas of citrus peel and crushed stone. Distinctly fatter and sweeter but quite stony in the mouth, then dry on the back, even austere. This seems sweet...

Wine Spectator: Ruby-colored, with grape, dark chocolate and plum. Full and chewy. Tannins are still there and need to mellow. Medium-sweet and grapey. A little one-dimensional still, but imp...

Wine Spectator: Wonderfully crafted, with mint, blackberry and chocolate aromas. Full-bodied, with loads of berry flavor and velvety tannins. Best after 2001. –JS

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ($104) Good medium red. Dark cherry, licorice, rose petal and wild herbs on the slightly medicinal nose. Supple, pliant and sweet, with an attractive juicy character to the re...

Wine Spectator: Shopping for your cellar? Stash this California Cab away for the next two to ten years and you'll be rewarded. It's deliciously complex, with earth, cedar, plum, currant, blac...

Wine Spectator: Tightly wound, with firm, leathery tannins wrapped around a core of currant, lead pencil, mineral and wild berry. Plenty of acidity and tannins, too. Best to decant.--1993 Cal...

About this Wine: Its firm, well-rounded tannins offer a smoothness ever present over the years. Being highly concentrated, it can be left to age  for many years...

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...

Wine Spectator: Very well done. Gorgeous aromas of raspberry, cherry and flowers. Medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a long, caressing finish...

Wine Spectator: A rich, beautiful wine. Dark color, with blackberry, smoky and coffee aromas. Full-bodied and very firm, with silky tannins and a caressing finish. Muscular...

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...