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| Community Tasting Notes (average 96.3 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 7 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Mark1npt on 3/22/2024 & rated 96 points: Two hour double decant. Medium magenta/ruby in the glass.
Nose of red fruit initially with a hint of camphor, but it quickly moved and settled on blueberry, which was beautiful.
Palate was very primary red fruit, then blue. Lots of barrel spice and great acidic backbone supplying its energy. Still a bit tannic on the backend but the fruit and energy of the wine rules here at present. Torn between 96 and 97 at present. Great match to the prime ribeye at Fleming's with Joel, Diane, Carol and Jaime. (745 views) | | | Tasted by AGELVIS on 3/22/2024 & rated 96 points: Two hour double decant. Deep dark magenta color. Blackberry, blueberry, and pecan pie. Dry, satiny, candied palate. Firm tannins on the longish finish.
This is great, but it’s young, primary, and oaky right now. Very fun drinker and it will improve (and it’s already very nice if you like fruit forward Napa CS). Mark1NPT was kind enough to supply this at a dinner with jsmorris707 and their beautiful lady friends. 96+ points (702 views) | | | Tasted by jsmorris707 on 3/22/2024 & rated 97 points: Brought by Mark last night to Fleming's, deep ruby with French oak on the nose & tasted like black cherries in chocolate with med. tannins & long finish, clearly Napa cab. Blind, I would have guessed a 19 Schrader, I loved it (but you have to like stereotypical Beckstoffer Napa cabs - not for French snobs) (397 views) | | | Tasted by Mark1npt on 10/4/2023 & rated 96 points: First taste since my winery tasting back in 1/22. Decanted 30-60 minutes before taking to HMCs for dinner. Tons of blue fruit and some red early on and through the 2+ hours we drank it. Tons of BCellars energy. Some perceived the 16.1% alc but I did not, it just felt like the wine was strong and the fruit powerful. Smooth balanced tannins to the wine. This obviously has more time ahead of it but drinking very well right now with some air time. No harm in trying one if you have a few! Cheers! (1733 views) | | | Tasted by Mark1npt on 1/10/2022 & rated 97 points: Same decant and barrel treatment as the others. Notes suffered from this one at the end of the tasting and having to hustle to our next appointment. I simply wrote "great wine" on my sheet. Tough to pick a fav with all these great B Cellars wines. This one perhaps had the most sweet red fruit of the three. (3451 views) | | | Tasted by AGELVIS on 1/10/2022 & rated 95 points: Two hour decant. Very deep dark magenta color. Black fruit, black olive, and subtly sweet barrel spice on the nose. Smooth, dry palate, with vibrant acidity. Very firm, full tannins on the very long finish.
This was a barrel sample that was drinking very tight. My rating is purely based on potential at this stage. Give this at least a year and a few hour decant. It will be bottled next week. (2252 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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