Wine Spectator: This has a wonderful nose, with blackberry, licorice, Indian tea and light toasty oak. Full-bodied, with silky, integrated tannins and a long, caressing finish. A pretty, eleg...

Wine Spectator: Blackberry aromas, with dark chocolate and mineral. Full and dense, with lovely fruit and a long, silky finish. Balanced and pretty. Best from 2011 through 2014. 3,415 cases m...

Wine Spectator: Aromas of boysenberry syrup with hint of licorice follow through to a full body, with a dense palate and slightly chewy tannins. Juicy wine, with a slightly rustic edge. But I...

Wine Spectator: Plump and juicy, with a friendly core of plum and blackberry character. Dark spice and anise notes chime in on the fleshy finish, and this sports a little punch. Tasted non-bl...

Wine Spectator: Lots of currants, minerals and lightly toasted oak. Full-bodied, with lots of clean fruit and superfine tannins. Excellent for a second wine. Best after 2009. 5,830 cases made...

Wine Spectator: More flesh than grip, with mulled plum and blackberry fruit laid over graphite and cedar hints. There's a flash of tobacco, though the mulled fruit is the main feature. Drink ...

Wine Enthusiast: Barrel sample. This wine has fine tannins that are relatively soft, with good acidity and dryness. It's not powerful, but with its fine black currant flavor and ripe fruit it ...

Wine Enthusiast: Shows smoky new wood and black currant fruit. This is a structured wine, powerful, while preserving just the right balance of acidity. It's dark and dense in character, yet wi...

Wine Spectator: Solid, if a bit chunky, with cocoa and ganache coating a core of black currant and blackberry fruit that hangs through the muscular finish, where a warm paving stone note ring...

Wine Spectator: Dark and enticing, with a subtle smoky frame around the core of mulled plum, black currant and blackberry fruit. The long, graceful finish is inlaid with flecks of charcoal, b...

Wine Spectator: This delivers a ripe, up-front, polished beam of blackberry and cassis fruit, backed by richer notes of fig sauce, cocoa powder and anise. Solid concentration and length. Drin...

Wine Spectator: An amped-up style, with dark, weighty, frankly toasty layers of blackberry, plum and currant fruit giving way to black licorice on the finish. Offers more raw power than fines...

Wine Spectator: This is polished and open, with a core of juicy plum, briar and black cherry fruit. Nicely rounded through the finish and accessible now. Drink now through 2018. –JM

Wine Spectator: Beautiful aromas of roses, raspberries and cherries. Medium-bodied, with firm and silky tannins and a medium, fruity finish. Shows structure that needs a few years of bottle t...

Wine Spectator: This has a solid frame, with graphite and roasted cedar holding the core of steeped plum and currant fruit together. A loam hint chimes in on the medium-weight finish. Drink n...

Wine Spectator: This is very distinctive, with live-wire acidity running through the core of damson plum, linzer torte and blackberry fruit that's framed by a mouthwatering roasted apple wood...

Wine Spectator: Very fresh, with a pure essence of raspberry and kirsch racing along, laced with an enticing red licorice note that drives through the finish. Rather direct, but well put toge...

About this Wine: "The majestic Comtesse de Lalande (second Grand Cru Classé at Pauillac) brought into the world a wonderful wine called « La Réserve ». Particularly fine and elegant, this is o...