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Community Tasting Notes 27
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SteAmy wrote:
December 9, 2022 - Initially tight but suspect of great complexity .
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etc wrote:
October 2, 2022 - at this point still too massive for me. give it few more yrs.
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Ravi Deshpande Likes this wine: 93 points
April 2, 2022 - A beautiful showing this time — last time I drank it it had a strange coconut taste and sour tannins. Everything has fallen together now and you’ll see Ontogeny at its peak - though I wouldn’t hesitate to leave it longer.
Dark fruits, fig even, sweet, with nice tannic structure -
galewskj wrote: 90 points
January 24, 2021 - Virtually Wines That Don't Suck (online): Poured into jars about 3pm for transport and into glass at 630pm. Drank a glass over 2 hours. This wine is super-grapey and sweet. It's not often that a wine actually tastes like grapes, but this one has tons of grape flavor. Candied with some alcohol, clearly big and modern with some polish. There is something about the sweet fruit that is enticing, which is the style. Drank single blind, I guessed either a 2007 Saxum Broken Stones or maybe a 100RP 2010 Mas de Boislauzon Quet CDP just because of its forward nature and I could see RP giving 100 points to this. Wow was I wrong.
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Cellar Baron wrote: 93 points
May 23, 2020 - After reading previous reviews, I've gone back and forth with these puppies ... decant or pop-and-pour? Tonight we decanted, drank soon thereafter and revisited over a four-hour period. Result? Decant. Much better later. From 89 to 93.
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2010 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon: An Epic Vintage (Dec 2012) (link)(Bevan Cellars Ontogeny Oakville) Subscribe to see review text.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2010
- Type Red
- Producer Bevan Cellars
- Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
- Designation Ontogeny
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region California
- SubRegion Napa Valley
- Appellation Napa Valley
- UPC Code 000004373643
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 141 (35%)
- Consumed 265 (65%)
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Who Likes This Wine
89% Like It 9 votes
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- SubRegionNapa Valley
- AppellationNapa Valley
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