2003 Beringer Vineyards Alluvium

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 86.1 points

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  9/6/2013 - Winecat Likes this wine: 90 Points

  needs to be decanted

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  1/15/2011 - atubbs wrote: 84 Points

  Alcohol finish. Decent balance but nothin remarkable.

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  3/8/2010 - 24wine42 wrote: 84 Points

  Good with food, good on its own.

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  5/16/2009 - kuhawk88 wrote: 86 Points

  Nice deep purple color in the glass. Oak and vanilla dominate the nose. The wine was smooth on the palate with the typical characteristics of merlot but with a little more backbone (from the 15% cabernet I presume). All in all an enjoyable wine with beef - and it delivered a taste experience that I would expect from a $20-ish bottle of red from the northern end of the Napa Valley.

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  1/6/2008 - LSKIII wrote: 84 Points

  GV gave it 79 and bashed it for too much oak. I just didn't see this as an "oak monster". The wine reminded me of a pleasant, but uninteresting Bordeaux and there certainly was more oak than you would normally taste in a French wine. The fruit on the palate went a little to the "fake" end of things - the mid palate and finish I tasted green pepper. The wine also didn't seem to have much in the way of tannins - after 2 hours decanted it seemed to start to go flat and bitter.

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