2007 Red Wine

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2007 Viña Ardanza Reserva is a blend of Tempranillo with 20% Garnacha, the Tempranillo from 30-year-old vineyards La Cuesta and Montecillo in the villages of Fuenmayor and Cenicero, and the Garnacha from old...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2007 Aglianico del Vulture Riserva Gudarrà is a standout wine and one of the best expression of Aglianico from Basilicata I tasted this year. The wine opens to a dark, impenetrable appearance with determined aromas of...

jamessuckling.com, 95 points: The nose is full of flowers and berries with dark cherries and ripe strawberries. Hints of flowers too. It's full-bodied, with wonderful structure with bright acidity. Super clean and beautiful. Very pure and firm. Needs...

Wine Enthusiast, 98 points: Here’s an unforgettable wine that absolutely makes the case for 2007 being one of the best vintages of late in Montalcino. The wine is broad and polished with masculine tones of dark fruit, leather and tobacco. These...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 96 points: The 2007 Amarone della Valpolicella Classico was bottled seven months before I tasted it. Grapes undergo a four-month appassimento for extra concentration and intensity. Despite this heavy-handed winemaking technique (in...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 98 points: The 2007 d’Alceo shows none of the Sammarco’s early appeal. It is a dark, inward wine imbued with black fruit, roasted coffee beans, grilled herbs and licorice, all of which build effortlessly towards the huge, explosive...

jamessuckling.com, 97 points: Wonderful purity of fruit with a strawberry, currant and plum character. Full and velvety body with ultra-fine tannins and a delicious fresh and fruity finish. Classic Rioja style. Que lindo! Drink now.

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, 93 points: (ST90-93 points) Good deep ruby-red. Complex nose melds black plum musky chocolate licorice menthol and fresh herbs. Sweet dense ripe and silky with lovely life and palate coverage. Pure and harmonious from the outset...

jamessuckling.com, 92 points: An aromatic red with tea leaf, tobacco, currants and berry character on the nose and palate. Full body, with dried cherries and hints of wood. Shows cloves, black pepper and spices at the finish. Delicious now or hold.

Neal Martin's Wine Journal, 95 points: Bottled just one month ago, the 2007 L’Eglise-Clinet cannot match the power and exuberance of either the 2005 or 2006 on the nose, but there is great clarity and sense of minerality although there is some bottle shock...

jamessuckling.com, 92 points: The wine has evolved into a single vineyard pure Merlot. Spice smoke and berry with black olives. Full and juicy with smoked meat and ripe fruits. Long and delicious. Milk chocolate too. Juicy red. Grows on you. Don't...

Burghound, 92 points: Integrated oak highlights the beautifully complex red berry fruit aromas nuanced by almost pungent earth tones that also suffuse the rich, round and reasonably concentrated mid-palate, all wrapped in a sappy and mouth...

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, 94 points: The 2007 Viña Ardanza Reserva is a blend of Tempranillo with 20% Garnacha, the Tempranillo from 30-year-old vineyards La Cuesta and Montecillo in the villages of Fuenmayor and Cenicero, and the Garnacha from old...