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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.1 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 14 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Be.Lee on 12/28/2022 & rated 88 points: Once prideful wine now on a downslope. Fruit is a bit fading. I could hold on to them and see what secondary/tertiary develop, but that Ed/Kirk fruit is fast disappearing (557 views) | | | Tasted by shellylowen on 8/16/2022 & rated 94 points: Rich, dark fruit, mouth coating tannins, you want to just roll your tongue around it, super long finish (559 views) | | | Tasted by mvande21 on 11/1/2020 & rated 93 points: Dark purple. Black fruits, tobacco, vanilla. Full bodied and structured. Balanced. Soft grained tannins. Long finish with slight heat. Two hour decant. Needs more time. (1790 views) | | | Tasted by shellylowen on 5/26/2020 & rated 93 points: Mouth coating tannins, medium finish, blackberries & black currants, low acid. Fabulous before dinner (1648 views) | | | Tasted by Shaun Mondavi on 6/25/2018 & rated 96 points: Dark purple robe, nose of blueberry, blackberry, vanilla, cassis. Smooth and ripe mouthfeel. Doing great with just a 30 minute decant but improves with more. Great young drinking wine. (3195 views) | | | Tasted by shellylowen on 3/5/2018 & rated 93 points: Lush tannins, long finish, blackberry and currants, fruity nosr (2315 views) | | | Tasted by srh on 2/3/2018: Winebar [2 Whts & 8 Reds] from 2/2/18 (Vintage Wines Ltd., San Diego, CA): N: RIPE melding of JAMMY berries & blk olives with undertones of choc? Intensity lurking?
P: Med body; Rndish entry with ATTRACTIVE, ALMOST swtish frt met by an astringent pucker which stays in contact with the init frt as it evolves into a LONG (albeit currently faintish) finish with a swtness to the dusty tannins. NEEDS 1-2 yrs if only (hopefully) to come together. (N & front-early mid P are presently tons ahead of the rest.) My VG+ (88,89/100 using that metric) @ present, though certainly with the potential for CONSIDERABLY higher. (1681 views) |
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Ed and Trish Snider are the owners of Beau Vigne. Born and raised in the Napa Valley, Ed was the head football coach for St. Helena High School located in the heart of the Napa Valley. Among the young men he coached at St. Helena, was the winemaker for Beau Vigne, Kirk Venge. He is a crafty winemaker who has been around vineyards and wineries his entire life. His father, Nils Venge, is an icon in the wine world who always had his son, Kirk, either in a winery or in a vineyard. To Kirk’s credit, he has polished his own skill set and reputation as one of the finest wine makers in the Napa Valley. Beau Vigne is very excited about its relationship with Kirk.
The Sniders bought the property in 2002 and named the ranch Stags Ridge Vineyard, a vista overlooking Stags Leap. Stags Ridge is now over eight acres of Cabernet, clone 337 and one acre of Cabernet Franc and Petite Verdot (Trish's Garden). Stags Ridge Vineyard sits at about 1,350 feet altitude in the Atlas Peak appellation on the eastern edge of Napa. Stag’s Ridge has become known as a very unique vineyard recognized in the valley as a very special place.Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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