Alto Moncayo Veraton 2006

This wine exudes the sweet smell of oak with a hint of cedar. The mouth is soft and fruity, having a lusciousness that is true to the house style. more

Tenuta Il Poggione Brunello di Montalcino 2004

Ruby red tending to garnet, very intense, persistent nose with red fruit notes. Warm, balanced flavour with velvet-smooth tannins. Long-lasting aroma. Serving suggestions: Red meats, game, mature cheeses. more

Podere Salicutti Brunello di Montalcino Piaggione 2001

Garnet red ruby very intense. Ample and intense with balsamic spicy tones (licorice, cofee and tabacco). Black berries (underbrush, cherries in spirits). Ripe fruits (strawberries, cherries), spicy (coffee- chocolate). Elegant. Body, warm and soft. Excellent tannin content and lengthy persistence. more

Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon 2001

The 2001 vintage produced the finest raw material we had ever seen at Quilceda. It was really exciting going through the various vineyard sections selecting only the very best lots to go into the cabernet. We knew we had a very special wine from the start and it has really ... more

Château Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon 2002

In the glass our 2002 has a dark, inky-purple color, saturated to the edge. It has a pronounced aromatic bouquet of luxurious pure ripe fruit, cassis and earth. The wine's diverse, complex and powerful flavor profile - with ripe cassis, blackberry, and black cherry flavors supported by hints of tar ... more

Beringer Bancroft Ranch Merlot 1996

Smaller-than-normal yields and especially warm weather in August produced highly concentrated grapes and the especially rich blueberry and blackberry aromas and flavors of this wine. Bancroft Ranch Merlot has a quality I can only describe as all-around richness. Unlike some Merlots I've tasted, the wine from Bancroft has no `hole ... more

Château de Beaucastel Châteauneuf du Pape 1998

Dark ruby colour, with bright red tinges. Nose still a little closed before decanting, expressing quintessential fruit, macerated with spices. The mouth is round, ripe and fleshy, and the generous finish ends with fine and velvety tannins. more

Flora Springs Rutherford Hillside Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 1997

The Rutherford Hillside Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is perhaps our most elegant single-vineyard Cabernet, exhibiting wonderful complexity and flavors entirely unique to this hillside vineyard. The aromas of black cherry, cassis and cocoa flow into the palate and arebalanced by a good acid structure and firm tannins. It is flawless and ... more

Plumpjack Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 1999

The Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon is heralded by aromas of sun-warmed tea leaves, fragrant dried lavender, semi-sweet dark chocolate and freshly grated sweet spices. The long and honorable heritage of this historical vineyard is classically stamped in the notes of intense black cherry jam and cassis which sound throughout our 1999 ... more

d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier 2002

Upon release d'Arenberg's The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier has a vivid dark purple colour. The Viognier adds fragrance and the perfume of flowers, nectarines, ginger and herbs, serving to enhance the very ripe spectrum of the Shiraz, namely blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry. These same characters are also evident on the ... more

d'Arenberg The Dead Arm Shiraz 2002

Upon release d'Arenberg's The Dead Arm Shiraz has a vivid young deep purple colour. The nose shows intense and complex cedary, fig, blackberry and blueberry like smells occasionally pepper/spice smells too. Vanilla mocha oak smells and attacking blackberry, cassis characters are also evident on the palate. Full, intense sweet, cedary ... more

d'Arenberg The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier 2003

Upon release d'Arenberg's The Laughing Magpie Shiraz Viognier has a vivid dark purple colour. The Viognier adds fragrance and the perfume of flowers, nectarines, ginger and herbs, serving to enhance the very ripe spectrum of the Shiraz, namely blackberry, blueberry and boysenberry. These same characters are also evident on the ... more