Red Wine from France

Decanter, 92 points: Even at the village level, the 2018 wines from Grivot are intense and beautiful. Enticing nose with ripe raspberries, cherries and crushed violets. Suave on the palate and quite intense with velvety tannins and a...

Wine Enthusiast, 95 points: Great swathes of fruit cross the tannic core in this impressive wine. Hints of wood aging peek out from beneath the sumptuous richness and spice. It is ripe, dense and obviously set for long aging. Drink from 2018.

Burghound, 91 points: (89-91 points) A type of reduction known as bourgeon de cassis by the Burgundians presently dominates the fruit but I doubt that it will last. The mouth feel of the middle weight and more mineral-inflected flavors is...

View From The Cellar, 95 points: The 2015 Mazis from Domaine Harmand-Geoffroy is terrific on both the nose and palate. The bouquet offers up a nascently complex blend of black plums, black cherries, dark chocolate, a beautiful base of Mazis minerality...

jamessuckling.com, 96 points: Hang on to your hat, because here comes a giant red Beaune that’s got enormous tannin structure and concentration, combined with generous body, but also electric freshness that lights up the massive finish. Try to be...

TheWineCellarInsider.com, 97 points: Deep, dark and spicy, with lush, fresh, dark cherries, earth, herbs and peppery kirsch. The wine is fresh, concentrated, lush and full, with layers of dark spicy, earthy, peppery fruits in the finish. The wine is produced...

Vinous, 93 points: (VN 91-93 points) Vivid ruby. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe, smoke-accented red and dark berries, exotic spices and lavender, and a subtle mineral nuance adds vivacity. Sappy, sweet and lively on the palate...

Wine Enthusiast, 90 points: Big tannins are coming through this ripe, rich wine. It has structure to go with the smoky fruits and acidity, giving a wine that has the potential to be ripe and concentrated as it ages. Drink from 2023. ROGER VOSS

Burghound, 94 points: A relatively high-toned nose displays notes of pomegranate, cherry, and raspberry along with hints of wild flowers, earth and spices that are trimmed in subtle but not invisible wood. This is even riper than the Mazy with...

Wine Enthusiast, 93 points: Ripe and spicy with delicious open fruit this wine is rounded yet has a straight line of pure acidity. It has a light touch while showing depth of flavor for the future. - R.V.

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2017 Chateauneuf du Pape Les Saintes Vierges is a blend of Grenache, Mourvèdre and Counoise grown on light, sandy soils. Yet it's full-bodied and intense, almost creamy in texture, perhaps the most powerful of the...

jebdunnuck.com, 96 points: The 2015 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Combe des Fous shows the seamless, silky side to the vintage, and has closed down slightly since I tasted it from barrel. Its big, intense nose of black cherries, blueberries, white chocolate...

Wine & Spirits, 93 points: This Gevrey has a casual beauty that’s hard to ignore. Eric Germain makes it from a parcel of 60-year-old vines, taking the fruit through a slow, spontaneous fermentation and aging the wine in barrels (10 percent new). It...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 91 points: (89 - 91) The 2016 Morey-Saint-Denis Village is raised in 40% new oak and there are four barrels, so I'll let you do the math. It has a clean and focused bouquet: dark berry fruit, touches of pressed flowers emerging with...