Wine Spectator: Deep garnet. Very pretty plum and berry aromas, with hints of honey and toffee. Turns to custard. Full-bodied, sweet and fresh. Firm tannins, with elegance and balance. Will a...

Wine Spectator: Slightly simple and sweet, but still very good. Deep purple, with fresh violet and berry aromas, full-bodied, with very sweet fruit flavors, full tannins and a medium finish. ...

Wine Spectator: Ruby-colored, with grape, dark chocolate and plum. Full and chewy. Tannins are still there and need to mellow. Medium-sweet and grapey. A little one-dimensional still, but imp...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: Two of the most impressive wines in these tastings, both of Dunn's 1986s tasted like 3-4-year old Cabernets rather than 10-year old adolescents. The 1986 Cabernet Sauvignon Na...

About this Wine: This wine is the result of a severe selection using the three traditional grape varieties Sémillon, Sauvignon and Muscadelle.  Each vintage is vinified and aged in tota...

Wine Spectator: Gorgeous aromas of currants, berries and minerals. Full-bodied, with juicy tannins and a long, long fininsh. Same as ever...

About this Wine: "...intense and complex bouquet, with peach, apricot, mango candied white fruit, honey, vanilla, elderflower, and sugar candy and lily of the valley aromas. Full on the palate...

Wine Spectator: ...Blockbuster. Dark ruby color. Intense aromas ofblackberries, currants, cherries and minerals.Full-bodied, very tannic yet velvety in texture.Black licorice and berry charac...

Wine Spectator: Sleeping giant. Dark red color with a brick edge. Subtle aromas of mineral, berry and mint. Full-bodied and very closed, yet chewy and big. Grows and grows on the palate. Huge...

Wine Spectator: ...honey, marmalade, dried apricot and vanilla aromas and flavors. Full-bodied, rather fat really, with an oily texture. Medium-sweet, with a burnt almond and molasses finish....

About this Wine: Dominus is made solely from grapes grown on the historic Napanook vineyard in Yountville, California.

About this Wine: The core of the Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon comes from the Soda Canyon vineyard, a marvelous hillside site with tightly spaced vines planted in rocky, well-drained soil...

Wine Spectator: Black licorice, cedar, cigar box and fresh herbs. Full-bodied and very structured, with firm, silky tannins and a long finish. Needs time.--'95/'96 Bordeaux retrospective. Bes...

Jancis Robinson: Dark crimson. Very cool, rather austere but impressive nose. Lots of fruit concentration on the front palate. Then chew on the end, but this should provide good mature drinkin...

Wine Spectator: Spice rack of a wine, rather exotic. Concentrated aromas of tar, spices and currants. Full-bodied, with loads of velvety tannins and a long, ripe fruit aftertaste. Best after ...

Wine Spectator: Shows such wonderful clarity and class on the nose, with crushed raspberries, blackberries and just a hint of flowers. Full-bodied, with layers of ultrafine tannins and a long...

Stephen Tanzer's IWC: Good ruby-red. Floral aromas of redcurrant, tobacco and nutty oak. Lush, sweet flavors of boysenberry and cedar; rather full in the mouth. Finishes with sweet, ripe tannins. T...

Wine Spectator: Lovely terroir as the earth, leather and currant notes mingle to create something distinctive and seductive. Full in body, silky in texture, with an undertow of fresh acidity,...

Wine Spectator: Gorgeous aromas of currant and flowers follow through to a full-bodied palate, with silky tannins and a medium finish. A little more bottle age will open it even more. Very pr...

Wine Spectator: A very fine '96, but what else would you expect from Cheval-Blanc? Medium- to full-bodied, with a good deep-ruby color, this has aromas of freshly crushed blackberry, fine tan...