Wine Enthusiast: It's the 100% Merlot that gives the alcohol and superripe fruit to this wine, redeemed by the acidity. Licorice and dark chocolate flavors go with the sweetest plums and spice...

Wine Spectator: This generous red offers ripe plum, espresso and smoke flavors that are firm and rather charry, with a tobacco and tar finish. Bold yet smooth. Best from 2013 through 2019.

Wine Spectator: A rich, powerful style, with lots of dark mulled fig, espresso, blackberry sauce and Black Forest cake notes, laced with streaks of bittersweet cocoa powder, which extend thro...

Wine Enthusiast: Barrel sample. Powerful, but smooth, with ripe milk chocolate and sweetness. Very velvet in texture, with just enough acidity. R.V.

About this Wine: The kernel for Pezat is a vineyard planted literally a pace outside of the Saint Emilion Appellation - towards the river from Château Teyssier near to Branne. Previously this ...

Ryan Moses: Inky core with a thin ruby rim. Mostly merlot with a dollop of cab franc. Intense dark, baked fruits, vanilla, and clove aromas. Really inviting and richly decadent flavors of...

Wine Spectator: A fresh, lively style, with a hint of anise on the edges of the sappy damson plum and cherry pit notes. A mix of currant and pomegranate are backed by briar on the finish. Thi...

Wine Spectator: A blockbuster wine for this appellation, with masses of fruit and velvety tannins, toasty oak and chocolate. 75 percent Merlot, 25 percent Cabernet Franc and 5 percent Caberne...

Wine Spectator: Berry and fresh herbs on the nose. Medium-bodied, with fine tannins and a medium finish. Straightforward.

James Suckling: Blueberry and floral aromas follow through to a full body, with superfine tannins and a long, flavorful finish. But very refined and subtle. Love the texture.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Another sleeper of the vintage, the opaque ruby/purple-tinged 2009 l'Estang exhibits lots of sweet black currant and black cherry fruit intermixed with a hint of vanillin. Med...

Wine Spectator: Full-bodied, with plenty of ripe fruit, toasted oak and spices. Long and caressing. A relatively new estate to watch.

About this Wine: Surface of the exploitation:    30 ha
Density of plantation:    5500 vines/ hectare
Average Age of the stocks:    27-30 year...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Showing a little more tannic than it was prior to bottling, this blend of 85% Merlot, 10% Cabernet Sauvignon and 5% Cabernet Franc is one of the consistently well-made over-ac...

Wine Spectator: Excellent concentration of fruit here, with crushed blackberries. Full and juicy, with medium chewy tannins and a fresh finish. Impressive. Best ever from here.

Wine Spectator: Beautiful clarity of fruit here, with licorice, blackberry and currant. Full and silky, long and racy. Dig it. Best ever baby. 91-94 -JS

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...

Wine Spectator: Subtle tobacco and roasted mesquite notes lead the way, followed by mulled plum and fig fruit and a fleshy but stylish finish that lets the fruit stretch out nicely. Drink now...

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

Wine Spectator: Tar and ripe berry aromas follow through to a full body, with juicy fruit and a long finish. Polished and deep.