2008 AHA Wines Bebame Red

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 88.7 points

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  12/12/2010 - drdebs wrote: 91 Points

  One of the most interesting wines I've had this year for under $20. A blend of Cabernet Franc and Gamay Noir. Interesting blend of Loire and Northern Rhone in style. Lots of dark purple fruit and pepper on first opening. The aromas become slightly more Cab Franc like with time, but the Gamay keeps the wine from having that green quality that Cab Franc can sometimes have that turns people off. Still, the wine feels lithe and light on its feet. Lots of fruit and spice and then an intriguing savory note (soy? umami?) in the long finish. Delicious.

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  4/1/2010 - Junior wrote:

  What's awful about this particular bottle of wine is that it's the last Bebame I own. Thank you, Steve (and Don).

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  12/25/2009 - dsgris wrote: 86 Points

  Fresh and fruity with some spritz in the sryle of a nouveau bougalais.

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  10/14/2009 - Junior wrote:

  Very nice, very clean, amiable Loire red blend. Delicious over two days--first in a juicier, fruitier profile, but, increasingly, earthy, even a bit gamey, with a more complex florality. On the palate: sharp, pellucid, lithe. Screwcap.
  
  So, yeah, Brix's note is right on.

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  9/21/2009 - Brix wrote: 89 Points

  65% Cabernet Franc, 35% Gamay Noir. 13% abv. This Loire style blend is made by Steve Edmunds of Edmunds St. John, and it shows. According to Michael Alberty, who sold the wine to me, "The Cabernet Franc hails from the Von Huewen Vineyard and the Gamay Noir is from the Witters Vineyard, a source known for producing great fruit for the Edmunds St. John Bone Jolly. Steve Edmunds takes the fruit and makes the Cabernet Franc and Gamay Noir separately before working out the blend with Don. They are fermented separately with native yeasts and then allowed to settle for four months in stainless steel tanks".
  
  The first sniff is intensely grapey, young Gamay. With a little air, the Cab Franc takes over. Dusty, chalky, deeply perfumed violets and cassis. On the palate, this is light to medium bodied, intensely juicy, and deliciously transparent. I tasted this last night while I was preparing dinner, and I didn't love the first few sips. The juiciness was almost cloying without food. At the dinner table, it was positively slurpable. Not that I needed convincing, but this was yet another example to me of why the wines that stand out in tasting rooms and the wines that do best at the dinner table are often not the same.

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