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

Wine Spectator: A plump, fleshy style, with loganberry, blueberry and plum fruit kissed by sweet spice and judicious toast notes on the medium-weight finish. Merlot and Cabernet Franc. Drink ...

Wine Spectator: This bold red delivers big, ripe flavors of blackberry and boysenberry, with licorice, tobacco and dark chocolate notes. The tannins are muscular and chewy, but give way to fl...

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

Wine Spectator: Refined and creamy, with delicate acidity that finds fine balance with the layers of poached apple and pear, lemon cake, ground ginger, smoke and almond cream flavors. Very el...

Alex Lallos: Brick red color indicates this wine is certainly not New World. Herbaceous nose with a little sulphur, which blows off with time. Flavors of anise and dried fruit glide right ...

Mike Supple: Nice light gold color, with a clear, bright rim. The nose is outstanding; sweet tropical fruits rush forward with nice herbal hints in the background. Mango and fresh green ap...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Even better is the blend of 50% Roussanne, 35% Viognier and the rest Grenache blanc, the 2010 Lou Coucardie blanc. Light gold, with intense honeyed, waxy, citrus blossom notes...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Made from 90% Syrah and 10% Mourvedre aged in 100% new oak, the inky/purple-hued 2009 Cotes du Ventoux Persia reveals notes of smoky barbecue intermixed with graphite, blackbe...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Open-knit aromas of peachy fruit salad, honey and white truffle. Quite rich and fruity in the mouth, with a distinctly sweet impression to the peach and apple flavors. Chewy w...

John Sweeney: Dark ruby at the core with a bright ruby rim. On the nose, this is textbook Bordeaux-black raspberry, cassis, wet rock, cedar and a touch of toasty oak. The palate is medium...

Cory Gowan: Vibrant pale gold. Very bright on the nose, with aromas of French vanilla, stone fruit, lemon rind, woodspice and green apple. Tart on entry, this medium-bodied effort fills t...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The old stand-by of Michel Tardieu is the 2009 Cotes du Rhone Guy Louis. This wine is about 60% Grenache and 40% Syrah, all coming from three sectors - Cairanne, Rasteau, and ...

Wine Spectator: Dark and toasty, exhibiting a coffee edge to the plum sauce, blueberry, black currant and anise flavors. A cocoa powder note lingers on the full-bodied finish, which has a fin...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and creamy, this intriguing white shows almond, brioche, melon rind and heather flavors that stay subtle and elegant through the macadamia nut-tinged finish. Drink now. 4...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2011 La Dame Rousse Tavel Rose, which is 60% Grenache, 20% Syrah and the rest equal parts Cinsault and the white grape Clairette. Full-bodied and substantial on the palate...

About this Wine: 0.80 ha of vine planted in 1986. Situated on the district of Nuits Saint Georges, exactly in front of "les Saint-Georges", this parcel produce a red Bourgogne build for agin...

Burghound: A reticent but elegant green fruit nose is primary but very fresh and solidly complex and leads to racy, intense and pure middle weight flavors that are textured, minerally an...

John Sweeney: Pale straw color. Intriguing nose displays sea shell and baked lemon tart aromas, along with subtle tropical fruit notes. Vibrant and lively, with well-integrated acidity and ...