Wine Doctrine
2012

Bevan Cellars Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard

7 notes Most recent 21 May 2019
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21 May 2019 So smooth and silky at this stage of the game. Give this a go if you have a few bottles. It'll last for a number of years for sure, but there's… 21 November 2018 In a beautiful drinking window currently, with ripe black cherry, plum, chocolate, and some faint spice notes. Decanted for a couple of hours and… 20 March 2018 It's been about a year since I last had this wine, which now shows noticeable smoothing-out and an elevated sophistication that was not fully… 12 May 2017 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… 23 February 2017 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,… 15 September 2016 Started off linear and tight, with red, blue, and purple berry fruit notes and a bit of alcohol. After two hours in the decanter, it began to open up… 17 July 2015 On the nose is a powerful wafting of crushed raspberries, Chinese five spice, and sweet liquor. Decanted for an hour to fan off some of the initial…
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