Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: From the bottle, the 2009 Chateauneuf du Pape has lived up to its pre-bottle form. Composed of 70% Grenache, 25% Syrah and the rest Mourvedre, Cinsault and other varietals, it...

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: 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: A dense, ripe, very fleshy style, with baker's chocolate and espresso layers in between the thick plum sauce, steeped fig and mulberry notes. Stays chewy on the finish, but wi...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The generic Vacheron 2010 Sancerre rouge - from around half each of flint and Kimmeridgian soils, as reflects the domaine's aggregate constitution - was raised one third in wo...

James Suckling: Wonderful aromas of blueberries, flowers and blackberries follow through to a full body, with ultra-fine tannins and a delicious finish. So attractive already. The quality of ...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Opaque purple. Ripe dark berries and spices on the nose and palate. Deeply pitched, smoke-accented blackberry and cherry flavors are complicated by herbal and floral nuances...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Bright purple. Fresh blackberry and mulberry aromas show impressive clarity and a subtle violet quality. Energetic cherry and dark berry flavors are complicated by floral pa...

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

Cory Gowan: Pale ruby with a pink rim. Fresh and alive on the nose, this is at the same time very Volnay and very Chanson. Features aromas of rhubarb, black cherry, damp earth, iron, bubb...

Burghound: A highly perfumed nose of spice, white flower, citrus and sea breeze nuances leads to seductive satin-textured flavors that are quite rich yet pure, delineated and possess ple...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: The 2009 Rasteau Vieilles Vignes shows more powerful, masculinity, earthiness in a more rustic, rough-and-tumble style that will take several years to calm down in bottle, but...

Eddie Wolowski: Pale gold. Nose balances tropical fruit, sea shells, spice, and minerality with citrus fruit. Full-bodied, focused, and balanced, with a hint of creaminess on the solid mid-pa...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good pale color. Subtle aromas of grapefruit, lemon, acacia flower and musky quinine. Firmly built, even a bit youthfully austere, but there's good breadth and minerality here...

About this Wine: Savigny-lès-Beaune 1er Cru Les Narbantons reds have an intense colour which is more vivid than that of the "Villages" appellations. Their bouquet is elegant and powerful, domi...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: ($35) Deep red. Pungent, mineral-driven aromas of raspberry, blackcurrant, potpourri and cured meat. Sweet and supple on the palate, offering vivid red and dark berry flavors,...

Burghound: This is also ripe to the point of displaying glimpses of exotic fruit yet there is still good freshness to the largely yellow fruit aromas tinged with mineral reduction notes....

About this Wine: Soil: clay and chalk, with characteristically rounded, huge stones.

Blend: Grenache is the dominant grape, followed by Syrah and Cinsault.