90+ Point Wines: Red Blend

Avaline Red Blend has a light to medium body with hints of cherry and the perfect touch of spice. Pair with a candlelight and a starry night.

Avaline makes clean, delicious wines with organic grapes and little else. Full of natural... Read More

A vivid ruby color with a garnet tinge and super-restrained nose of licorice, oak bark, smoke, wood, cigar box, leather, dark chocolate, smashed violets and prunes. It has a fresh subtleness. Full-bodied and elegant on the palate... Read More

This is a really beautiful, seductive wine with chocolate, walnuts, currants and some tobacco. Full-bodied, with a supple tannin texture and a flavorful finish. Succulent. Blend of 60% merlot and 40% cabernet sauvignon. Second... Read More

Wild cherries, mushrooms and aniseed on the nose. Some cinnamon. It’s full-bodied, plump and rich, with soft tannins and a ripe and spicy finish.

The 2022 Silver Label now shows the name on the label (and also Etiqueta Plateada in Spanish). It's their first wine in their new era, which started in 2002, a wine that aims to promote the quality and potential of Monastrell.... Read More

Roasted herbs, olives, black plums and licorice on the nose. It’s medium- to full-bodied, with savory and spicy undertones and fleshy tannins.

Banfi Col di Sasso offers a bouquet of black cherries and spice. Rich with soft tannins, delivering persistent black-fruit flavors and subtle hints of smoke, with a lingering finish.

Ideal with pizza, pasta, grilled meat and poultry.... Read More

So much purity and definition, this is a beautiful wine with clarity of flavour. Touches of grilled almond and rosemary, mocha, smoke and coffee bean, there is so much freshness, with juice rushing in between the muscles and a... Read More

Juicy and compact now, with dark currant, blackberry and fig notes at the core, surrounded by lots of warm earth, singed alder and tobacco leaf notes. Cast iron note helps extend the finish, with the fruit and earth notes keeping... Read More

The 2019 Gruaud Larose is performing extremely well in bottle, wafting from the glass with aromas of wild berries and plums mingled with notions of licorice, potpourri, pencil shavings and subtle soil tones. Medium to full-bodied,... Read More

This wine offers rich tannins and dense black fruits in equal proportions. The structure, with the dry core, shows great promise and the wine is definitely worth aging. Drink from 2024.

At five years old, the tannins are still young and holding on tight, but the blackberry and cassis fruits have both juice and depth. This is a vintage where the phenolics are high, and there is an inky depth overall. Mint and... Read More

This 430-acre estate has produced an elegant, fruity wine. The wine comes from vines on the edge of the Pauillac appellation, with deep gravel soil that gives structure to the approachable black fruits. Drink from 2025.... Read More

The nose is open and very expressive. On swirling the glass, the wine’s rich aromas come through with ripe black fruits taking centre-stage. Discreet notes of oak integrate harmoniously in an explosion of fruit aromas. The... Read More

82% Cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot

Château Lilian Ladouys 2019, a vintage that is fresh yet sumptuous. The tannins are velvety, the balance exceptional: here is a wine similar in some ways to 2016 or 2018, yet even fresher and more aromatic.

Blend: 57% Cabernet Sauvignon, 37% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot

Espresso crema and melted black licorice aromas give way to a lush range of cassis, plum reduction and blackberry confiture flavors that roll through with authority. Long finish is carried by a buried graphite note and hint of... Read More

Powerful, concentrated wine, a very solid Cabernet-dominated wine. It has dark tannins, the black currant fruit still hiding in the background. Dark and dense, it's destined for good aging, at least over the next six years.... Read More

Our Dark Horse Red Blend is anything but ordinary. As its name suggests, this blend offers big, bold fruit aromas and flavors. Aromas of jammy dark fruit and toasted oak lead seamlessly into a rich mouthfeel with notes of raspberry... Read More

The story of an injured dog being rescued by a winemaker will always make the Three Legged Red a sentimental favorite of mine. This latest vintage starts with earthy oregano and duff aromas, followed by notes of blackberry and... Read More

Black cherry, cedar, spice and walnut aromas and flavors. Medium-bodied with juicy fruit and a savory finish.

A fine, beautifully crafted wine with ripe tannins and jammy red fruits. With its red berry aroma and its juicy acidity, it is developing well. Drink from 2026.

Enticing vanilla bean and cappuccino aromas lead to a velvety texture supporting dark chocolate, baked cherries, cinnamon and nutmeg flavors. It's wrapped in lavish, fine-grained tannins, with gorgeous blueberry, black cherry... Read More

A concentrated and rich nose with aromas of blood plums, mocha, prunes and baking spices. The plate is full-bodied with firm tannins and long, lingering notes of blackberry compote, roasted meat, graphite and citrus rind. Made... Read More