A somewhat strange BDX hybrid. Some dark currant flavors with some wood. Not a lot of depth, viscosity, or complexity. Clipped and thin on the back end. I couldn't get into it unfortunately.
Same notes as 5 months ago. Drinking really well with a one hour decant. Impeccably balanced for a wine in this bracket. One of the best sub-$100 Napa reds out there. Drink now and over the next 5…
Same as all of my previous notes. Micro-filtered (had a decent amount of sediment) and decanted for an hour. A little jet fuel at the initial PnP, but it didn't take long to start showing…
PnP started out with plum and alcohol; hot brick and purple fruit notes competing with each other. This needed about two hours to calm down. Notes of ripe plum, blueberry, boysenberry, and some…
Similar to the 2014 David except that this was less overt in the sweet department. A little more blue fruit from the 2014, but the 2015 seemed to house its core a little better than the 2014. I…
Same as last year. Soft, round, and somewhat inviting, but not displaying any interesting levels of complexity or concentration. This was much sweeter than the 2015 David. Extraction was a bit high,…
The 36% Merlot component of this wine really jumped to the front of the line when it came to core fruit flavors. Blackberry and milk chocolate dominated, with some cedar notes. Round and fat, but…
Same as my previous notes from 01/23/2017. Scrap the decant and stick with PnP. This doesn't need extra air or any kind of extended decant in my opinion. The air it gets in the glass is just fine.…
Same as my notes from 12/15/2016. Accessible and balanced. Blue and black fruit dominated. A great house blend from Bevan that is an easy drinker for the most part at this stage. It indeed shows the…
A striking bottle of wine, this blend was less brooding and deeply pitched than the 2015 PerUs Cabernet Sauvignon. Of course, that's not to say this wine wasn't a big, dark, modern expression of a…
Phenomenal performance for such a young wine. Hands down the best EE I've ever had. So concentrated, opulent, and deep, but at the same time brimming with energetic purple and red core fruit.…
Super tight and linear initially. Took a couple of hours to start to be a quasi-enjoyable drink. Certainly a different style of red, with freshly grilled/seared meat, peppercorn, plum, currant, coal,…
Dark black cherry liqueur, plum, ripe black raspberry, blueberry, blackberry, vanilla bean, and hints grey river rock. Immediately accessible and even more giving after a total of three hours in the…
This has integrated and fanned-out significantly since I last had it at Realm on 11/19/2016. Nice purple and black berry fruit notes, plum, black cherry liqueur, dark red and black currant, vanilla…
Same as my notes a few months ago. This was served alongside a 2013 Buccella (WOTN for 3 of the 5 of us) and a 2012 Saunter Eagle Summit (a distant third place). For me, the Bevan was the overall…
A fine bottle of wine indeed. PnP was a little tight and palate clenching, with a blast of coiled-up black and dark red fruit, asphalt, black slate, black licorice, and a streak of red currant.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. As a BDX blend, this was completely too round and soft to classify as a Cabernet driven blend. Plum, black cherry, and some funky chocolate notes. When…
Same notes as last month. I drank the heck out of this wine all throughout dinner. I ignored a 2010 Forman and a 2013 Spottswoode in favor of the Bevan. Good stuff!
The wood and cedar sawdust elements of this wine far over-shadowed the red and black currant fruit flavors struggling to pop out. Reminded me of having to clean my hamster cage when I was a little…
This is really performing well now. Previous notes apply. I didn't even need to decant it. After a couple of hours of slow O2, it was singing gorgeously. Highly recommended and drinking WAY above its…
The best this wine could ever become was what it in fact became right after the first sip... poured directly into the red meat sauce for a homemade lasagna.
Cheap BDX wine. What do you expect? Not bad. Not great. Prominent cedar flavor and kinda weak fruit; finish was especially drying. Tolerable, just not favorable.
Okay folks, it seems as though we are making our way into a drinking window of bad a**-ness with this wine. On 9/15/2016 when I last had this wine, it was a bit restrained and linear...just a bit. I…
Similar to my previous notes. My last bottle. It was good, even a little better than when I last tried it back in December. A few hours in the decanter helped significantly. But even as I type this,…
