1996 Beringer Vineyards Merlot Bancroft Ranch

Community Tasting Notes (50) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  3/10/2024 - DoubleMagnum Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Consistent notes. But this time it's even better. Contrary to what I thought then, time may have done good to this. It's so Bordeaux-like. 91+1.

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  1/10/2024 - RTP Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Opened over the afternoon for evening dinner. We all drank it down. Lost a little on the nose upon opening but the mouth feel and berry, mint, graphite, tobacco and old raisin flavors. Long lingering and flavorful and great with NYS steaks. Also of such good quality we drank it down almost immediately upon opening.

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  10/2/2022 - JRockEsq wrote: flawed

  Method: pop and pour; out of fridge and warming up; Cab glass
  
  Nose:muted with slight cardboard, maybe a faintest hint of cherry
  
  Palate: very muted; cherry, cedar, herbs, cardboard; unpleasant finish cherry cough syrup; dry; med- body; fairly lovely structure, but the wine is too bad to keep sipping to take more notes
  
  Corked. Shame.

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  4/13/2022 - RED AND BLACK wrote: 92 Points

  This is still in great shape. I think 3/5 yrs before maybe dropping. Mature stage. All nicely integrated. Nose was not superb, a bit light. Mouth was great, fruit was there still so not just tertiary. Really nice Merlot. Superb QPR for Napa. 92 for the nose

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  3/7/2022 - WetRock wrote:

  Shows a strong whiff of primary maturity immediately upon opening. That fades fairly quickly leaving a win fading from the secondary to the tertiary. Musty and dusty around the edges. Plum, cedar and oak on the nose. Strong tannin still. Still showing some richness on the palate. Notes of tea bely the maturity. Lots of acidity. Less complexity on the palate than you would expect. A nicely mature wine from a property that was criminally overlooked in its day. This was likely at it best five to ten years ago. The structure is clearly stronger than the fruit here. I wish I could parse most of the Napa wines from the last two decades the same way.

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