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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.1 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Greg Habeeb on 2/10/2024 & rated 96 points: One of our all time favorites. Perfect with a medium rare bone in ribeye. (449 views) | | | Tasted by mvande21 on 5/29/2023 & rated 95 points: Opened with no decant on the heels of a bottle of 2019 Seven Apart Expedition. The Expedition was aromatic and delicious though more structured, tannic and needed more air time than I gave it. The BV GC was full bodied as well, but smoother, somewhat less structured with delicious black and red fruit, plum and chocolate notes. Both wines had similar fruit (both from Ed's former Atlas Peak vineyard?), full bodied with long finishes. Loved both wines but the BV wins for value. Both paired well with beef, onion and green pepper grilled skewers. (1289 views) | | | Tasted by Nati Winos on 4/28/2023: Needs an hour plus just to open up. Really a nice wine. Smooth. (1080 views) | | | Tasted by Franken Berry on 11/24/2022 & rated 92 points: Bought from the winery at half price a year ago. Slow ox for two hours. Deep dark color, blue and black fruits. A bit closed, muted at this stage. Lacked acidity, which made it a bit dull. Maybe this had just shut down, or an off bottle, but I have enjoyed the Reserve more. (2395 views) | | | Tasted by Tym4wine on 8/5/2022 & rated 93 points: Wow. Both the same and different from two years ago! Amazing floral aromas, bright, fresh and lively! Color is deep dark red in the glass, nearly black. Inky. Dark black fruit, blackberry and cassis. Tannins are grippy with some edges but rounded in the finish. Acidity is bright and lively. Fantastic. (2265 views) | | | Tasted by 5039000 on 4/2/2022 & rated 93 points: Dark cherry color (4)
Red and blue fruit on the nose (13)
Cherry, plum, and blackberry fruit with notes of chocolate and oak (17)
Dry finish (9)
Bottle time will make this amazing (2363 views) | | | Tasted by Iceman611 on 3/2/2022 & rated 92 points: Deep and dark flavors. Plenty of tannins. (1878 views) | | | Tasted by napajournal on 6/11/2021: Dark cherry and plum. Super slick. A tad medicinal. Glides down with a medium finish. Fruity and supple with a hint of iron. Tastes of southern Napa elevation! Drank with 5 hours of air. Liked, didn’t love. Probably deserves a little more age for greatness. (3067 views) | | | Tasted by kvswine on 12/25/2020 & rated 94 points: One of my favorite producers. Everything works perfect grapes , aging and finish (2709 views) | | | Tasted by akpace on 12/15/2020 & rated 93 points: Rich, dark fruit, hint of vanilla
Very nice (2664 views) | | | Tasted by Tym4wine on 10/2/2020 & rated 91 points: Dark brick in the glass. This wine has a beautifully fragrant nose. The tannins are round and smooth bringing a mellow softness to the wine in the mouth. This is a fruit forward wine with lots of black fruit full of brambly blackberry and having good acidity. The wine has a long, memorable finish. Nicely done. (2847 views) | | | Tasted by Be.Lee on 9/30/2019 & rated 98 points: Tasted at Beau Vigne 2017 Launch Party:
Holy moly! This was the highlight of the day. Amazing balance, long lasting finish, fruit forward of typical Napa Cab, without being overtly obvious. Plenty of acid and bold tannins but they just melt in your mouth. Why didn't i buy this vintage? sad. (4950 views) |
| Beau Vigne Producer website
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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