Wine Spectator: Solid, with a very juicy core of lightly mulled plum and blackberry fruit, a polished apple wood note that runs along the edges and a solid, gravel-tinged finish. Sports nice ...

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

Wine Spectator: Ripe and juicy, with a succulent edge to the cassis, plum and blueberry fruit, which stays defined through the spice-tinged finish. The fresh aftertaste is accessible now, wit...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2010 Petit Chablis is a fresh wine with attractive white fruit and floral notes. The finish shows excellent energy and drive. Anticipated maturity: 2012-2018. -AG

Wine Spectator: Dark and ripe, with a lush edge to the plum sauce and dark fig notes that's held in check by a charcoal frame. Bitter orange and Campari hints flash through the finish, with a...

Wine Spectator: Offers a mix of dark black currant and bright damson plum fruit flavors, intertwined with singed mesquite and bergamot notes. The long, taut finish should flesh out with modes...

Wine Spectator: This has a creamy melon frame, but the core of verbena, straw and tarragon is vibrant and lively, showing nice cut and a lingering quinine edge on the finish. Sémillon, Sauvig...

Wine Spectator: This is rich but crunchy, with Jonagold apple, salted butter and lemon green plum offset by tangy green almond, tarragon and fennel frond. The juicy, full-bodied finish manage...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and rather direct, with plum sauce, blackberry preserves and black licorice notes, turning slightly stolid on the finish. Best from 2015 through 2020. -JM

Wine Spectator: Vibrant, with mouthwatering lemon rind, bitter grapefruit and chamomile notes, flecked with floral and chartreuse hints. Very pure, featuring a spine that will hold up to agin...

Wine Spectator: The dark currant and blackberry fruit is offset by a lively, racy, chalky spine and mouthwatering notes of savory and violet. Stays firm through the finish, with a charcoal co...

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...

Wine Spectator: Dark in profile and rather stolid, with a beam of currant, plum and fig allied to a prominent iron shaft that clamps down on the charcoal-textured finish. Showing rather auste...

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...

Wine Spectator: Offers lush fruit, with dark raspberry and boysenberry notes, good, graphite-laced structure and bright acidity weaving throughout. The long, smoldering finish features an app...

Wine Spectator: Solid, with a core of raspberry and steeped blackberry fruit inlaid with anise, apple wood and wood spice notes, all backed by a well-integrated graphite edge on the finish. D...

Wine Spectator: Ripe and driven, with dark plum and cassis notes inlaid with a serious graphite edge that imparts nice cut to the anise-filled finish. An echo of spice and fruit lingers. Drin...

Wine Spectator: Racy and bright, with kirsch, floral and chalk notes. The finish has good nervosité and tension. Tightly wound now, but the length is there. Equal parts Cabernet Sauvignon an...

About this Wine: This wine will require 7-10 years of cellaring, then last for two decades thereafter.