Wine Spectator: Ripe and dense, this delicious red offers a lovely creamy mouthfeel to its crushed plum, blackberry and anise flavors, carried by long, velvety tannins. Lovely spice and toast...

Wine Spectator: Dense but restrained, with a charcoal frame holding the solid core of black currant and blackberry fruit at bay for now. There's a nice smoldering feel through the finish, wit...

Neal Martin's Wine Journal: Tasted at the Syndicat de Pomerol. This has a very attractive bouquet with dark berried fruit, raspberry, cassis all with fine delineation and well integrated new oak. The pal...

James Suckling: Wonderful aromas of blueberries, flowers and blackberries follow through to a full body, with ultra-fine tannins and a delicious finish. So attractive already. The quality of ...

Wine Spectator: A cocoa powder note coats the core of plum, bitter cherry and raspberry, leaving a lightly taut feel as a bright iron note helps extend the finish. Fresh and pure. Drink now t...

About this Wine: Land: A plateau of limestone; bordering slopes with chalk and clay soils....

About this Wine: Land: A plateau of limestone; bordering slopes with chalk and clay soils....

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: A big, sweet, ripe nose of raspberry jam interwoven with white flowers, blueberries, kirsch and some subtle oak and camphor is followed by an intensely concentrated yet silky ...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This superb estate, run by Sophie Porquet with consulting from Michel Rollandâ_Ts top assistant, Jean-Philippe Fort, produces...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: This wine seems to be in the process of putting on some weight and texture. Dark ruby/purple, with a sweet nose of black cherries, currants, plums, earth, and licorice, the wi...

Wine Spectator: This lush, expressive red is rich with ripe fruit flavors of blackberry and cassis, framed with coffee bean and dark chocolate. The tannins are firm but well-integrated, and j...

Wine Spectator: Bright, ripe and forward, with very friendly raspberry, cherry preserves and cassis fruit flavors that glide along polished tannins. Shows solid concentration, but approachabl...

About this Wine: Land: A plateau of limestone; bordering slopes with chalk and clay soils....

Wine Spectator: This is quite ripe, with almost flashy plum, raspberry and boysenberry flavors, but they stay focused and driven, with mouthwatering anise and apple wood notes that cut throug...

Wine Spectator: A supple, polished, modern style, relying on creamy, mocha-tinged toast, gentle plum and blackberry fruit flavors before finishing with a lingering cocoa edge. Should stretch ...

Wine Spectator: Pretty Cabernet Franc aromas of crushed berries and some milk chocolate. Medium- to full-bodied, with soft and silky tannins. Long sweet fruit on the finish. -JS

Wine Spectator: This has an old-school twinge, with bay leaf and alder notes leading the way for cassis bush, blackberry and tobacco flavors. There's lightly edgy grip, but this doesn't reall...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Haut-Brisson displays a sweeter, more forward and evolved personality compared to the Reserve, with less oak but lots of fleshy black currant and kirsch-like fruit in...

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

Wine Spectator: Vibrant, with a racy, well-stitched core of damson plum, raspberry and blackberry fruit supported by fruitcake and graphite notes. Displays range and energy. Solid. — J.M.