Community Tasting Notes 11

• rylanreynolds wrote: 98 points

  February 26, 2021 - 3 hour decant and drank on a fruit day. This Cabernet Sav by Bevan is firing on all cylinders. The 2010 is a favorite vintage of mine and this one is pleasurable like the 69 position with your second girlfriend. Medium acidity, dark purple color, long legs. On the nose: lavender, Garrigue, bramble, and new tires. Palate: mild blue and strong black fruit, herbs de Provence, melted Mexican four cheese remnants. Bevan strikes gold with this one. Drinking amazingly well now. 10 more years to go.

• JustBreathe680 Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 10, 2021 - The bottle was purchased directly from Bevan Cellars on 10/15/19 when Pumpkin stumbled across 7 cases of this first vintage of Harbison Cabernet. The 2010 bottle is named "Patricia's Cuvee" after Joe Harbison's wife.
  
  This was the last bottle I drank in my home of 5.5 years. The home has great memories, including but not limited to, getting married and having my 2 boys while living in the house.
  
  I decanted the wine for 1 hour at approximately 55 degrees then I placed the decanter on the kitchen counter at 69 degrees for 1 additional hour. I then poured the wine back into the cleaned bottle and maintained the bottle/wine temperature at 61 degrees in a EuroCave WineArt
  
  At the time of the initial decant, there was heavy sediment in the bottle. I poured through a screen into the decanter and there was fine sediment in the decanter after the initial screening. I poured the wine through a screen a second time into the cleaned bottle.
  
  The glass used was a Riedel SOMM Bordeaux glass. The wine was paired with a Flannery Dry Aged Wagyu NY Strip.
  
  The color was a dark purple. The nose was a little muted but had scents of black fruits and baking spices. The taste was of acai, blackberries, dark cherries, cocoa, baking spices and a hint of carmel. There was good flavors on the mid palate and in the aftertaste. The acidity was medium with medium tannin structure. It was well integrated and balanced with a great mouth feel. It was full bodied with a silky smooth long finish of approximately 45 seconds plus, a little shorter than a more recent Bevan Oakville cabernet.
  
  This 2010 Harbison was more similar to a Mustang than a Corvette in the world of Russell Bevan. It still has the Bevan touch but it's a different type of horse power compared to his more recent vintages. The sheer power is there but it pins your ears back differently. The wine is seductive, sexy and opulent but its more similar to a Bevan Wildfoote from Stags Leap than a massive Bevan cabernet from Oakville.
  
  The wine was consumed over 5 hours and every glass was very consistent and it never lost a step.
  
  My score is 95+. It was consumed on a root/leaf day and could possibly gain an additional point if consumed on a fruit/flower day. The wine is in its peak drinking window now and still has a few more years within this window. This was a very enjoyable and memorable wine.

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• themuzzle Likes this wine: 93 points

  April 28, 2020 - Paired with Flannery steaks. Decanted for about 20 minutes before my first taste. My immediate reaction was that this had lost a step, being lighter and less fruit forward than what I've experienced from Russell's wines in the past. The wine did grown on me over the next 2+ hours, but it wasn't at that $300 price point that it commands on the secondary market.

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• YankeeRobio Likes this wine: 95 points

  March 22, 2020 - Less weight and fruit than a usual Bevan, but still a wonderful wine

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• msuwine wrote: 92 points

  January 17, 2020 - This rich and plummy wine is drinking well right now, but it still tastes a bit shallow and imprecise, even after a good dose of air. I admittedly enjoy Russel’s wines on the younger side, but I've also enjoyed my fair share of his wines at the 8-10 year mark. This, I'm sad to say, is not among my favorites.
  
  Brick in color and medium in body, the wine offers aromas of blueberry, raisin, and herbs. Tastes of black cherry, cocoa powder, cardamon, and graphite, with a grippy and disjointed finish. Followed over five hours with consistent notes. 14.2% alcohol.
  
  For what it's worth, this got destroyed by a 2010 Bond Matriarch, which I drank on the same night. The Bevan was more rich, but the Bond had more energy and depth, not to mention precision (i.e., not dominated by plum). It's like the difference between good speakers and bad: the Bevan isn't a disaster (you still hear the music), but it seems muffled compared to the (cheaper!) Bond.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer Bevan Cellars
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard Harbison Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Oakville

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• Pending Delivery 12 (8%)
• In Cellars 61 (40%)
• Consumed 81 (53%)

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