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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.9 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 13 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Bobcat 31 on 1/2/2024 & rated 95 points: Great bottle started New Year with this at a steak house Pefect match (302 views) | | | Tasted by Bobcat 31 on 10/7/2023 & rated 95 points: needed short decant well balanced and outstanding bottle (326 views) | | | Tasted by jcampano on 7/3/2023 & rated 96 points: Aromas of black cherry, crushed rocks, cedar, graphite, violets and plum. Full-bodied with spice and mocha, some licorice and loads of black fruit. Velvety tannins and a very long finish. (303 views) | | | Tasted by Sparty1983 on 12/9/2022 & rated 96 points: Decanted for 3 hours and could have used longer, but the first reaction of 4 people upon tasting was -Wow! (614 views) | | | Tasted by Bobcat 31 on 7/28/2021 & rated 94 points: always great, took about an hour to open up. (1363 views) | | | Tasted by Bobcat 31 on 1/7/2021 & rated 95 points: one of our favorites (1546 views) | | | Tasted by Be.Lee on 10/20/2020 & rated 97 points: Tasted at winery
Thank you Peter and Mark for pouring this one.
Amazing bouquet, and while this was my first time trying anything produced by Andy, there was something different about this bottle vs other cabs poured during the tasting. more complex? is the feeblest answer i can provide, but i can't wait to see how this wine turns out in few years. Maybe it is unfair to compare challenging 2017 vintage with bountiful high of 2018, but this was a tad below star vineyard.. at least for now. (1828 views) | | | Tasted by Cristal2000 on 2/9/2019 & rated 95 points: Barrel sample. This showed all the hallmark BTK notes of cassis, dust, blackcurrant, loamy soil and earthy notions. It was rich and concentrated, but not at the level of the 15-16 vintages. Rode a bit higher on the pallet and didn't quite show the purity of those epic vintages. No worries here about ripeness or smoke taint. 94-96 (3418 views) |
| B Cellars Producer Website | B Cellars satellite photo B Cellars is located in the Oak Knoll District of Napa Valley Appellation. Partners Jim Borsack and Duffy Keys met in 2002 and formed the winery a year later. Winemaker Kirk Venge makes a variety of blends, all labeled with different numbers, for the winery. The "B" stands for Brix, which refers to the sugar/alcohol content in grapes. Venge is a Napa native and was raised in the Valley in a winemaking family.
Just as the blending of two or more world-class wines can make an even more palatable potion, the uniting of two over-achieving entrepreneurs can create a union that is more effective than either one alone. When B Cellars’ founder Jim Borsack first encountered his partner Duffy Keys at a fourth of July barbeque in 2002, both executives were exploring new life paths in the wine business. Over a drop of the good stuff, of course, their journeys became intertwined when they discovered that they not only shared the same tastes in wine but were also on parallel missions to acquire vineyard property. In the spring of 2003, they scrapped their solo endeavors, formed B Cellars, and got serious about structuring a first-rate wine company predicated upon two absolute principles: first, to produce exceptional artisan wines, season after season, by employing a multi-vineyard strategy, and second, to develop distinct flavors by blending wines from mutually complementary varietals. Not long after they met the third key player, Kirk Venge named “One of the Top 20 New Winemakers in the World” by Food & Wine Magazine (October 2005). Kirk brought with him a 37 year winemaking legacy via his father, Nils, and a keen understanding of the Napa appellation. A bond was established almost immediately. “With Kirk’s passion for great wine, first-hand knowledge and commitment to excellence, it quickly became apparent that he was the ideal winemaker for B Cellars,” said Jim. All team members were in concert with the idea of blending the finest red wines from the Napa Valley Appellation, and Kirk was given the mandate to create three proprietary blends of consummate quality from year to year. The B Cellars name and logo stand for a commitment to seasonless excellence. The letter ‘b’ and the degree symbol º refer to BRIX, a wine term which defines the optimal sugar/alcohol content in grape juice that indicates the potential for greatness. B Cellars is committed to the artisan approach, creating perfectly balanced and complex wines. We are confident you will enjoy them and be proud to share them with friends and family.
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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 SauvignonBeckstoffer To Kalon VineyardBeckstoffer To Kalon continues to receive worldwide accolades for its wines, particularly in the last decade. The vineyard is on a gentle slope on the western foothills of the Oakville appellation. Soils are Bale loam/Bale clay loam, and are impeccably farmed by Andy Beckstoffer’s team. We have a by-acre contract so we can determine canopy, crop load and picking dates – but rely on the Beckstoffer viticulturists for insight into this unique vineyard to guide our decisions. ... ©2012 Tor Kenward Family Wines
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USAAmerican 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)Oakville |
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