Wine Spectator: #41 on Wine Spectator Top 100 (2009). Bright, tangy and elegant, this vibrant wine has grapefruit and pineapple flavors at the fore, picking up apple and spice as the finish l...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby. Fresh red berries and spices on the nose. Taut and precise, offering tangy redcurrant and bitter cherry flavors underscored by bright minerality. Finishes with...

Wine Spectator: This harmonious, elegant red delivers pure black cherry, blackberry, mineral and spice flavors. There's some power as well, evidenced by the finish, where dense tannins match ...

Wine Front: This 2007 is not a hard wine to like. It's beautifully structured. Beautifully fruited. Blackberries, cloves, eucalypt and integrated cedary oak. Indeed I kept coming back to ...

Wine Spectator: Polished, generous and airy in texture, with pure currant and blackberry flavors that hint at coffee as the finish lingers against fine tannins. Drink now through 2014.-HS

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Also 100% barrel-fermented, the 2007 Chardonnay Grangerville Vineyard reveals a light medium gold color along with aromas of nectarines, white peaches, crushed rocks, creme br...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This big time sleeper of the vintage is a blend of 50% Merlot, 27% Cabernet Sauvignon, 13% Petit Verdot, and the rest Cabernet Franc. An outstanding effort, it boasts a dense ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright ruby. Spicier and more high-toned than the 2008, offering scents and flavors of raspberry and bitter cherry, along with a subtle floral overtone. Juicy, sharply focus...

Alex Shaw: Dark red fruits of black cherry and macerated strawberry are prominent on the nose, which also shows more subtle notes of cranberry, freshly turned earth and a hint of eucalyp...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good dark red. Ripe medicinal cherry aroma with a hint of game. Supple and fruity, with good stuffing to the ripe flavors of blackberry and blueberry. Surprisingly tannic for ...

Burghound: A fresh and quite floral nose of earthy and mildly rustic red berry fruit aromas that leads to round, supple and nicely detailed flavors that possess both good intensity and p...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2007 Merlot, on the other hand, is just plain delicious. The wine possesses notable depth and inner sweetness, with waves of dark fruit, chocolate, spices and French oak t...

Wine Spectator: Silky in texture and generous in flavor, with spicy cherry and rhubarb character that remains juicy through the round finish. Syrah, Malbec, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and o...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good ruby-red. Sexy aromas of black cherry and minerals. Supple, sweet and easygoing if a bit reduced today. In a round, slightly chunky style. Finishes with decent purity of ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: There are three cuvees of Rasteau, all of them outstanding. The dark ruby/purple-hued 2007 Cotes du Rhone-Villages Rasteau Cuvee Prestige possesses a velvety personality cramm...

Wine Enthusiast: Soft, silky and fruity, filled with fresh, ripe raspberries, cherries, red currants, cola, mocha, sandalwood and cinnamon spice. Pleasant and easy to drink. - S.H.