2009 Beckmen Vineyards Cuvée Le Bec

Community Tasting Notes (30) Avg Score: 88.4 points

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  7/29/2021 - bdhanna Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Really tasting great right now, like a baby Châteauneuf-du-Pape !!
  Screw-top easily removed kept the wine fresh for over a decade. This wine opened right up and even showed better the next day. On day two the fruit was still fresh and acid still firm; this wine had softened just enough to reveal increased depth, texture, and integrated complexity. Dark red color with little to no oxidation, and clarity medium, not fined or filtered. Aromas of black cherry, and vanilla. Flavors of black cherry cola, raspberry framboise, glycerin, and leather. This Rhône style blend has a beautifully long fatty finish. A balanced and flavorful selection of 45% Grenache, 34% Syrah, 14% Mourvedre, and 7% Counoise from Santa Ynez in Santa Barbara County. This age worthy wine has many more years of life left, unfortunately, this was my last bottle of this vintage. A great fruit source and another good winemaking effort from Mikael Sigouin and Steve Beckman.

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  7/24/2019 - scarlet834 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Still pretty good a decade later!

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  10/12/2013 - bdemus Likes this wine:

  A tasty wine, fruit forward, but slightly darker fruit than when I drank it at the winery 3 years ago. Decent mouthfeel, not much length. Quite good for the price.

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  3/16/2013 - signotim wrote: 87 Points

  best on night 3. pumped after night 1

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  10/29/2012 - beachdude8977 wrote: 89 Points

  Great week day wine.. nothing wrong with it.. toasty, fruity, long finish.. not bad! Great QPR!

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