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• lvjohn Likes this wine: 96 points

  November 11, 2023 - A superlative wine from a superlative winery and wine making staff. Drank over two days separated by about 24 hours. Decanted and filter to remove the fine but plentiful lees. Very dark in the decanter and the glass. The wine tasted of incredible red and dark red fruit with a bit of spice in the background which seems typical of a Russ Bevan wine. This spicy element mellowed with time to reveal a rich and structured wine. The second day brought more of the same. Both days were wonderful. This wine is drinking nicely now and is likely to seem fresh for at least 5 or more years.

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• mdvillaverde Likes this wine: 95 points

  September 27, 2023 - Agree with Geaux Tigers.

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• Geaux Tigers Likes this wine: 97 points

  August 9, 2023 - On open it took 45 min for significant VA notes to blow off — was worried for a while. After that point, though, Wow! Black fruited beauty, black cherry, plum, dried blackberry, nutmeg, cardamom, spice, white pepper, black olive. Harmonious with tannins and oak integrated. 97 is the verdict, that number may be conservative, loved this wine!

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• Red Sox Fan Likes this wine: 95 points

  January 29, 2023 - We opened a 2013 Bevan EE and a 2013 Schrader RBS. Both were very good after a 60 minute decant. The Bevan was a little bigger, bolder and darker; the Schrader a little smoother and lighter with fruit more to the reddish end of the spectrum. I expect both of these wines will improve over the next few years.

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• Geaux Tigers wrote: 97 points

  June 29, 2022 - A Week in Cabo; 6/28/2022-7/7/2022 (Cabo San Lucas): Slow ox in bottle. First glass at 3 hr, rest of bottle at 4 hr with dinner. Bevan never fails to deliver on fruit/flower days!
  
  At 3 hr this was really good. Inky in the glass, silky over the palate, blue and black fruited, plum, spice, black cherry, black raspberry, some burnt embers but the cab franc is out and about with some mineral streaks and black olive appearing.
  
  At dinner, the waiter impatiently over poured our first glasses leaving a ton of sediment in both glasses. Careful drinking in that first glass yielded similar notes as above, but the earthiness from the cab franc receded and some chalky tannins appeared. With new glasses, another hour and food, it only got better with the tannins providing complimentary structure to blossoming fruit. In addition, a lovely and complimentary cola note appeared, but some oak also—Jack and Coke like. Terrible analogy, it was not bad but that’s what came to mind.
  
  97 today. These are ready to roll and in the zone if you like fruit—time to start rolling through mine. If possible decant, this bottle was full of ‘dirt’ but a full decant for sediment was not in the cards for multiple reasons.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2013
• Type Red
• Producer Bevan Cellars
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation EE Cuvée
• Vineyard Tench Vineyard
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Oakville
• UPC Code 451601157509

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• In Cellars 774 (57%)
• Consumed 580 (43%)

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