1995 Beaulieu Vineyard Tapestry Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (47) Avg Score: 90.1 points

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  1/21/2023 - Gregmonroe wrote:

  So I bought a cellar; 11/12/2022-12/31/2030: The cork on this bottle was fairly saturated, and I should have used a Durand, but only had an ah so where I opened it. Cork broke. But the wine inside was great. Still deep red in the glass with only slight bricking around the edges. Lots of red fruit on the nose, and no musty smell at all. On the palate, more red berries - cranberry, sour cherry, and a bit of leather. Certainly in a tertiary phase, but it tastes great, and I like this one better than the 1995 Georges de Latour Private Reserve that we had a few weeks ago. This one does not have the stewed fruit profile that that one did. This one has a 20 Second finish. Really enjoyable wine.

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  1/20/2023 - AllRed wrote: 94 Points

  Friday Night Brown Bagger (R&D's): Double blind. Aromas of clay, black fruit, dried plum and root beer. Soft tannin. Flavors of plum and black fruit abound. Long finish. Doesn't change much during the flight but becomes more amplified and forward. Balanced. So very fine. Guessed "old school" Napa. (J&J)

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  1/20/2023 - Border Boss Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Double decanted two hours before service. Dark red in color. Perfectly balanced wine with great red fruit showing. This wine shows no signs of decay at this point. It looks and drinks much younger than its 27 years of age.

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  12/31/2022 - kabert Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Another super 1995 Tapestry! This ‘95 Tapestry was one of the wines that lured me into wine in the late ‘90s and early 2000s. I’ve since located a handful of bottles at auction (now about 20 years after those original bottles were depleted). This bottle was a superb wine to enjoy with New Year’s Eve appetizers. Tannins mostly resolved and just a tender beam of acidity, but wow, what wonderful and special fruit that remains! Other than the calmer, silkier, less tannic nature of this wine, there’s precious little age-indicative or tertiary notes showing. None of the earthy/tobacco notes that sometimes attend an aged Bordeaux blend wine like this. Bravo BV!

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  7/16/2022 - NoahCap wrote:

  This bottle is in fantastic shape. Wine is still pretty youthful looking, garnet color, even a little purple at the core, just starting to brick at the rim. Up front the nose has graphite, cedar box, wood shavings, sweet pipe tobacco. Black cherries are the main fruit component. Menthol in the background.
  
  In the mouth, acidity is medium, tannins are present but silky smooth wine quality. Surprisingly, the prominent flavor is of black cherries, blackberries, and only afterwards comes the graphite, tobacco, and cedar characters. Held up nicely on day two, with even more focused fruits in the mouth.
  
  A lovely bottle that went spectacularly well with a Denver steak. There is no rush to drink, this bottle at least seems to be on a comfortable plateau and in no danger of the backslope for 5 years or more. Enjoy!

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