Wine Doctrine
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Reviews

31 notes

2014

Becklyn Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Moulds Vineyard

Napa Valley · Oak Knoll District

Certainly an outlier among the wines tasted, the 2014 Becklyn Moulds was a puckering, tight blast of sour cherry, pomegranate, red raspberry, vanilla-laced alcohol, red vanilla Creamsicle, and more…

Reviewed 4 November 2017
2014

Becklyn Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

California · Napa Valley

PnP was an attack of extra ripe plum and super sweet vanilla bean. The blueberry and blackberry smoothie notes were a bit too extracted and cloying initially.

Reviewed 26 June 2017
2015

Becklyn Cellars Sauvignon Blanc McGah Vineyard

Napa Valley · Rutherford

All previous notes apply. My last bottle. A good SB, but one in which I found myself longing for a little more "oomph" from overall. Crisp, light, and agreeable. A good sipper on a hot day.

Reviewed 18 June 2017
2015

Becklyn Cellars Sauvignon Blanc McGah Vineyard

Napa Valley · Rutherford

Same as my previous notes. Not as much tropical nuances and a bit more grass and steel this time (which made it less NZ-esque in its delivery - which I was ok with - but it didn't necessarily elevate…

Reviewed 19 May 2017
2014

Becklyn Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve Moulds Vineyard

Napa Valley · Oak Knoll District

I gotta honestly say I don't know how anyone is drinking this right now without some SERIOUS airtime. PnP was like drinking cranberry juice. An hour in the decanter did next to nothing in terms of…

Reviewed 16 November 2016
2015

Becklyn Cellars Sauvignon Blanc McGah Vineyard

Napa Valley · Rutherford

You can go ahead and copy and paste most of what Cristal2000 mentioned with anything I could hope to conjure up in terms of tasting notes for this wine. This was New Zealand SB right out of the gate…

Reviewed 7 November 2016