February 12, 2022 - Bottle slightly oxidized; open up over 2 hours, peaked and fizzled/sizzled. I wish I had drunk it 1-2 years earlier.
September 6, 2020 - Showed incredibly well with great nose and body. Still strong, dark fruit but super smooth balance.
August 17, 2020 - Same notes as last bottle. Needs a healthy decant to totally up and integrate.
January 25, 2020 - Two hour decant. Heavy tannins at open. Softened considerably with air. Final glasses were the best. Earthy tones w/dark fruit. may evolve further over next 12-18 months but not sure this is a longer term hold.
April 27, 2019 - I'd say it's peaked and you have until 2022.
April 26, 2019 - A little more balanced versus my last bottle. Delicious wine with tons of body, dark fruit and nice lively underlying structure. Long finish.
March 1, 2019 - Decanted for 2+ hours then back into bottle, first glass 3+ hours from opening. Delicious! typical BV style, a lot of extracted fruit but nice undertones of cocoa and earth and reasonably well-balanced. Strong effort in a weak vintage. First bottle of my case, will drink the rest beginning in 2021 and then over 5 years.
February 2, 2019 - Enjoyed with Andrea and Jeff New Year’s Eve
October 27, 2018 - Nose: Black Cherry, super ripe plum, spice, turned earth, bell pepper, a bit of VA and alcohol. Palate: Black cherry, prune, sweet oak, chocolate and very drying tannin. Full ripe fruit, but suffers a bit from over extraction of some lots. Then the oak was Finish: Black cherries and strong taransaud barrel notes. You could just about spit splinters of fine french oak here.
Sometimes you need to make the wine the vintage gave you. Over manipulated 2011s are very problematic in Napa. This was great in the tasting room, but in bottle just 4-years later this is not quality that I am used to from Beau Vigne.
October 21, 2018 - lacks a little depth