Jancis Robinson: 100% separate parcel. Whole bunch fermentation off the north facing slope of Tarraford, no filtration, gravity bottled. Very vibrant and rather austere and demanding. Yes, it'...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A terrific wine from proprietor Thierry Gaudrie, this wine, which has a similar blend to the La Vieille Cure (73% Merlot, 18% Cabernet Franc and the rest Cabernet Sauvignon), ...

Wine Spectator: Ripe, slightly hefty style, with plum skin and macerated cherry and currant fruit backed by a well-toasted finish. Verges on over-extracted but has enough lift to keep it hone...

Wine Spectator: This has good ripe plum and black cherry fruit woven with a currant eau-de-vie aroma. There's fine-grained structure and an easy, vanilla-tinged finish. Not as dense as the to...

Wine Spectator: A bold, modern style, with overt spice aromatics and mouthfilling blueberry compote, plum sauce and fig paste flavors. Dark anise and graphite fill in on the finish. Not shy, ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: From ten year old selection massale vines in a rocky, south-facing Oxfordian site south of Sancerre proper, the Vacherons' 2010 Sancerre Paradis - raised in wooden upright plu...

Wine Spectator: Smooth and polished, delivering a plush mouthful of plum, blackberry and balsamic aromas and flavors that linger on the finish with a touch of coffee. Drink now through 2016. ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium-deep red. Knockout nose combines raspberry, smoke, spices and loamy soil tones. Fat, sweet, sexy and rich, but with ripe, harmonious acidity giving shape to the ...

Wine Spectator: Showy and densely layered, with lots of linzer torte, cassis, blackberry pāte de fruit and plum sauce flavors that march in unison, while a strong graphite spine rivets the fi...

About this Wine: Area  : 2.19 hectares (5.41 acres)
Soil : clay, limestone
Grape varieties : 76% Merlot, 24% Cabernet Franc
Average age of the vines : 32 years
Grape harvest: ...

Wine Spectator: Still a bit compact, with blueberry coulis, fig and blackberry paste notes tightly wound, backed by tangy black licorice, singed apple wood and tar on the finish, which featur...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: There are only 400 cases of the outstanding 2009 Cotes du Ventoux Il Etait Une Fois, a blend of 80% Grenache from 80-year-old vines, 15% Mourvedre from 20-year-old vines, and ...

Wine Spectator: Really ripe and fleshy, offering delicious glazed peach, apricot and honey notes, with lots of orange blossom and fig and a very rich finish. Starting to take shape now too. I...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Vivid yellow. Candied citrus fruits and white flowers on the bright, mineral-accented nose and palate. Juicy, sharply focused orange and lemon curd flavors give way to deeper...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good full red. Perfumed, high-toned aromas of red and dark berries, pungent spicy oak and flowers. Youthfully tight and not showing its flesh today, with a peppery quality co...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Glass-staining purple. Highly perfumed aromas of black and blue fruits, licorice, black olive and smoky Indian spices. Pliant and broad on the palate, with appealing sweetne...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque ruby. Spicy red and dark berry aromas are complicated by lavender and rose, with a sexy Asian spice quality gaining power in the glass. Fleshy black raspberry and che...