Wine Spectator: Dense but fresh, with a saturated core of blackberry pâte de fruit, anise and plum sauce that races along with vibrant spice and graphite notes. The long finish shows cut and ...

Wine Spectator: A roasted mesquite frame lends a grippy edge to the notes of steeped plum, anise and blackberry in this dark red, which is juicy and edgy at the same time, with spice and chal...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Lamothe Guignard has a tightly wound bouquet with touches of lemon curd, spice, pear skin and light honey, good definition and freshness. The palate is fresh and taut...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and solid, with a dark core of plum and blackberry laced with toasted anise, singed apple wood and graphite. Shows good drive through the finish. Drink now through 2015. ...

Wine Spectator: A bit compact, but still quite juicy, with briary black cherry, plum skin and sweet spice notes. Just a touch clamped on the finish, but should flesh out enough. -J.M.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Mathilde is 100% Merlot in 2010, and the alcohol is at 15%. The wine is a blockbuster, a delicious, hedonistic St.-Emilion fruit bomb with loads of blackberry, raspbe...

Wine Spectator: Features unbridled fruit, with blueberry coulis, loganberry and blackberry notes mixed together and stitched with toasted anise and fruitcake accents. A touch toasty on the fi...

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: Has the ripeness of the vintage, with a dark core of plum and cassis guided by solid, well-integrated tannins that let black licorice and Black Forest cake notes play out on t...

Wine Spectator: Solidly built, with notes of singed vanilla bean and a flicker of espresso framing the core of plum, red currant and steeped cherry fruit. Toasty but sleek, with a perfumy edg...

Wine Enthusiast: Smooth and unctuous in texture, this has dense black fruits that edge toward dryness from the tannins. Dark chocolate and licorice notes lend a bitter edge. Rich and modern in...

Wine Spectator: Very bright and lively, with lots of verbena, lime and white peach flavors harnessed for now by a blanched almond note. Really pure, with a flash of shortbread on the lengthy ...

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...

Wine Spectator: Plump and enticing, with a mouthwatering anise note that pulls you in quickly before delivering waves of blueberry, açaí berry and plum fruit, followed by bouncy spice and flo...

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: Dark and winey, with a core of steeped blackberry, plum coulis and anise flavors that pump along, just bracing enough from the slightly taut charcoal frame. Long and sleek thr...

About this Wine: Vinified since 1998 by Mr Louis Mitjaville
Selected parcels of 40 year old vines
Density : 5 200 vines per hectare
100% Merlot
Hand harvested
Yield: 35 hl /hect...