Top 10 wines in the US press

2006 Cougar Crest Reserve Syrah

Craig LaBan in the Philadelphia Inquirer recommends this Australian red wine, writing: “The fruit is New World ripe, brooding, figgy, round, and deep. But then echoes of the Rhône kick in, with smoke, tobacco, anise, black olives, and firm-yet-polished tannins ideal for Provençal-roast lamb, or some good old Yankee barbecue.”