Wine Spectator: This is a step ahead of the pack, with concentration but gentle texture to the plum, cassis and linzer torte flavors, which are inlaid with black tea and singed fennel seed no...

Wine Spectator: Big and ripe. Dark ruby-garnet color. Very ripe berry, chocolate and plum aromas. Full-bodied and chewy, with lots of tannins and a very ripe fruit finish. Tight, muscular and...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: ...notes of prunes, raisins, Chinese black tea, blackberries, and cherry liqueur. It is rich and powerful, as well as tannic and disjointed, but medium to full-bodied, with ex...

Wine Spectator: Captivating aromas of wild raspberry, cherry, mineral and grilled meat mark this full-bodied wine, along with huge,silky tannins and an extra-long, caressing finish. Envelops ...

Wine Spectator: Fleshy, but pure and elegant, with a gorgeous beam of raspberry ganache, plum sauce and cherry preserve laced with subtle graphite, spice and violet hints. The long finish is ...

Wine Spectator: This takes a broader approach, with almost stolid tobacco and charcoal structure guarding the core of black currant, roasted fig and blackberry confiture flavors. Long and ver...

Wine Spectator: Fleshy and unctuous, with dark plum and steeped currant fruit, rounded out by a healthy dose of toast and a long, charcoal-filled finish. Shows serious weight for the vintage....

Burghound: Here there is also generous wood but what can be discerned about the underlying fruit is that it is cool and much more floral in character compared to the Bougros as it slides...

Burghound: This is quite generously wooded though the wood does not completely dominate the ripe green fruit and orange zest aromas or the rich, full and borderline rustic flavors that p...

Burghound: Generous wood still dominates the green fruit and shellfish aromas though its presence is much less noticeable on the concentrated, sappy, broad-shouldered and powerful flavor...

Burghound: Generous wood fights for center stage with the white flower, tidal pool and spice aromas that are followed by citrus and mineral-infused flavors that are attractively textured...

Burghound: In contrast to the prior three grands crus, the wood treatment is much more discreet if not invisible and more complementary to the white fruit, sea shell and iodine aromas th...

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...

Burghound: This is not quite as elegant as the wood is a bit more obvious but offers more aromatic breadth with floral and spice notes added to the tidal pool and white orchard fruit aro...

Burghound: This is not quite as elegant as the wood is a bit more obvious but offers more aromatic breadth with floral and spice notes added to the tidal pool and white orchard fruit aro...

Burghound: This also displays very generous wood that fights somewhat with the notably ripe yellow orchard fruit that is borderline exotic in character. The big, powerful and impressivel...

Burghound: Though the wood is hardly subtle, it's better integrated and allows more of the floral and orchard fruit aromas to shine through and it is also less evident on the big, powerf...

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...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Moderately saturated medium red. Vinous, fruit-driven aromas of cherry, redcurrant and strawberry. Suave, round and fine-grained, with lovely finesse to the redcurrant and s...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good medium red. High-pitched aromas of black cherry, minerals and licorice. Precise and pure, with a juicy quality to the blackberry and violet flavors. Can't quite match ...