Day 3 in Napa in the books! Running a day behind on notes...Napa time runs slow AND fast!
My wine of the tasting. WOW! I’m a Howell Mtn junkie and this satisfies my craving. Geez. Cocoa dusted fruits, pipe tobacco, big blue and black fruits, charcoal and dark chocolate. So good!
Day 3 in Napa in the books! Running a day behind on notes...Napa time runs slow AND fast!
My wine of the tasting. WOW! I’m a Howell Mtn junkie and this satisfies my craving. Geez. Cocoa dusted fruits, pipe tobacco, big blue and black fruits, charcoal and dark chocolate. So good!
Feb 4th, 2019
2023 vintage. Medium/medium-heavy body. The best of the seven Bevan current red releases tasted today but also the most subtle/least demonstrative. Enduring elegance without as much weight as the other reds. 08.22.25.
2023 vintage. Medium/medium-heavy body. The best of the seven Bevan current red releases tasted today but also the most subtle/least demonstrative. Enduring elegance without as much weight as the other reds. 08.22.25.
Aug 22nd, 2025
Followed over two nights. My wife loved it, but I did not. I believe this has to do more with my palate shift to less overt in your face wines and the wines youth. It just felt muddled to me like the oak was masking the fruit. Maybe it just needs more time for everything to settle in its rightful place.
Followed over two nights. My wife loved it, but I did not. I believe this has to do more with my palate shift to less overt in your face wines and the wines youth. It just felt muddled to me like the oak was masking the fruit. Maybe it just needs more time for everything to settle in its rightful place.
Apr 8th, 2020
Howell Mountain, Napa Valley, California, USA
