B Cellars Mixed Red Blends

Tasting notes & discussion 35

Typically $69/bottle for Blend 24 and $80/bottle for Blend 25
Vintage 2016 for both blends
Alcohol content of 14.9% for both blends
B Cellars, but more than just a B Grade wine. Feel free to use that, B Cellars.
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About B Cellars Vineyards and Winery
Founded by Jim Borsack and Duffy Keys in 2003, B Cellars seeks to provide exceptional, artisanal blends with distinct flavors using mutually complimentary varietals. Under winemaker Kirk Venge, who brought four decades of experience, B Cellars has managed to combine old world and new world techniques to make interesting and complex blends.

Bee Cuvée

TASTING NOTES:
Blend 24 - “The aromatics offer a refined display of blue fruits, strawberry jam and floral notes leading to a ripe palate of rich, dark fruit that is layered and lingering. Great balance, vibrant acidity and refined tannins make this a perfect pairing with any savory dish.”

Blend 25 - “Initial flavors of blue fruit, espresso roast, and cherry cola layer with aromas of huckleberry jam, sweet tobacco, saddle leather and freshly cracked black pepper. A voluptuous mouthfeel of velvety tannins and a fine tuned acidity create a seamless, deeply satisfying, full-bodied wine.“

TANGENTIALLY RELATED FACT to help make conversation over this wine:
Bee Movie was an animated film released in 2007 by DreamWorks. It starred and was written by Jerry Seinfeld. It was pretty… mediocre? It had its moments. In 2015, though, it had a resurgence as people started posting the full script in unexpected places as a joke all over the internet. Because of this, it reentered the public consciousness.

DRINK IT FROM (conventional option):
Red glasses, as both blends are Cabernet Sauvignon-centric. B Cellars’ own Chef Derick suggests a Chicken Skewer with Wild Rice, Currants & Toasted Pine Nut Agrodolce for Blend 24 and Lamb Brochette for Blend 25.

OR (really-going-with-the-theme option):
A honey jar. Probably would make more sense with a mead offering, but what can you do.

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Blends with one varietal being the overwhelming body of the blend, but with dashes of others providing some unique variations
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Blends of only two or three varietals where each feels like it contributes a measurable and distinct presence
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Blends of several varietals that all have their own little notes in the mix but overall create something new
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