Beau Vigne Heritage Cabernet 2022Decanter : 93 Points (7 14 2024) The Beau Vigne 'Heritage' bottling is sourced from several sites in Napa and Sonoma, including one near Vrit. Incredibly savoury, it leads with notes of black olive, liquorice, and bursts of blue fruit and violets. Full bodied, it features wonderfully plump and sweet tannins and lots of juicy, crushed black fruits complemented by nuances of dried fennel and tobacco. Drinking Window: 2024 2030.

where spring is felt first in the lungs

and everything around it

and wet stone

The medium-bodied palate is finely chalky and refreshing

commonly found on valley floors

This wine features some of the original vines from the first plantings in 1965

and a distinctly old-school earthiness

white almond and fennel seed before a tangy saline close

I would like to introduce you to one such chateau: Guilhem de Mestre

You taste Napa not as spectacle but as structure: warm days

and a faint floral note that suggests crushed rose petal and dry herbs

The nose is rich with aromas of dark plum