Wine Spectator: Ripe, concentrated and youthful, offering generous plum, currant and anise aromas and flavors framed by cedar and toughened a bit by tannins that will need until 1997 to 2000 ...

Wine Spectator: Ripe style, with crème fraîche, white peach and chamomile notes followed by a creamy, wet-straw framed finish. — J.M.

Wine Spectator: Aromas of tobacco, tea and berries, with hints of meat and dust. Medium-bodied, with polished tannins and a fresh and fruity finish. Still rustic. Better than when in barrel, ...

Wine Spectator: Nice cocoa and coffee aromas lead the way for roasted vanilla bean, dark plum and black cherry fruit notes. This is a touch firm, but racy and fleshy enough through the finish...

Wine Spectator: A ripe, fleshy style, with lots of fig and mulled blackberry and blueberry fruit. Good toast and ganache notes thread this together, with a muscular feel on the finish. An ove...

Wine Spectator: Features a core of dark anise, fruitcake, plum sauce and raspberry, with a fleshy texture that hangs through the finish. Has guts without the vintage’s chewy, taut feel. — J.M...

Wine Spectator: Offers a density and lushness that belies the appellation, with a full, polished structure and deep plum, blackberry paste and steeped black cherry fruit flavors. The long, an...

Wine Spectator: This has concentration and power for the vintage, with cassis and linzer torte notes laced with a racy iron edge. Nice flash of anise on the finish. Has some wood to soak up, ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This could turn out to be the finest La Fleur de Gay since the incredible duo of 1989 and 1990. Made from 35-year-old Merlot vines planted on the plateau of Pomerol, sandwiche...

Wine Spectator: This is on a different pitch, with intensely aromatic blueberry, loganberry and blackberry fruit flavors laced with mouthwatering charcoal and graphite notes. Gorgeous ganache...

Wine Spectator: Primal, with a polished feel and a blast of ebullient raspberry and black cherry fruit. Flickers of singed apple wood, red licorice and fruitcake hang in the background. This ...

Wine Spectator: Blueberry and intense flowers. Massive nose. Full bodied yet reserved, with silky tannins and a fruity and refined finish. Seamless.From 100-year-old vines. Score range: 92-95...

Wine Spectator: Dark and alluring, showing a solid graphite underpinning and riveting charcoal and tar notes lending definition to the core of crushed plum, blackberry and boysenberry fruit. ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A more classic cuvee, the 2011 La Fleur Morange (cropped at 20 hectoliters per hectare) is a blend of equal parts Cabernet Franc and Merlot that may have the highest natural a...

Wine Spectator: This has a really nice graphite frame that drives the core of fig, plum and boysenberry fruit authoritatively, with dense ganache, espresso and tar on the finish. The grip is ...

Wine Spectator: Taut with briar and blackberry flavors, this shows sappy black cherry on the finish, with buried minerality. -J.M.

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, ...

Wine Spectator: One of the great young wines we have tasted this year. A stupendous, silky, full-bodied red of great character and depth, deep color and tons of pure fruit. Layered with miner...