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96 points Jeb Dunnuck
The most ripe and sexy in the lineup, the 2017 Bettina checks in as 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Petite Verdot. Ripe cassis, currants, crushed violets, and tobacco notes all emerge from the glass, and it hits the palate with a big, exuberant, bombastic profile that still stays flawlessly balance and light on its feet. While it shows mostly fruit at the moment, it has beautiful mid-palate depth as well as building tannins. Drink bottles any time over the coming 25-30 years.
96 points James Suckling
Outer quote mark Orange peel and crushed raspberries and blueberries. Hints of flowers. Some chocolate, too. Full-bodied, tight and polished with extremely fine, lightly chewy tannins. Powdery. Really tight and beautiful. Needs time to open. Try after 2023. Inner quote mark (1/2020)
96 points Wine Advocate
Outer quote mark Very deep purple-black colored, the 2017 Bettina Bryant Proprietary Red is a little youthfully subdued to start, soon unfurling to display notes of dark chocolate, fertile loam, beef drippings and wild mushrooms over a core of creme de cassis, plum preserves, wild blueberries and Morello cherries plus a waft of underbrush. Full-bodied, the palate bursts with bold red and black fruit notes, framed by firm, grainy tannins and oodles of freshness, finishing long and perfumed.
With fruit from David Abreu’s Madrona, Thorevilos and Las Posadas vineyards, the 2017 Bettina Red brings three distinct terroirs together in harmony. Freshness and iron notes of Madrona intertwine with blue fruits and minerality of Thorevilos, which in turn coalesce with camphor and bold tannin of Las Posadas to form a brooding and beautiful conglomeration of balance and provocation. The blend for this new vintage is comprised of 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 19% Merlot, 8% Cabernet Franc and 2% Petit Verdot. "Very deep purple-black colored, the 2017 Bettina Bryant Proprietary Red is a little youthfully subdued to start, soon unfurling to display notes of dark chocolate, fertile loam, beef drippings and wild mushrooms over a core of creme de cassis, plum preserves, wild blueberries and Morello cherries plus a waft of underbrush. Full-bodied, the palate bursts with bold red and black fruit notes, framed by firm, grainy tannins and oodles of freshness, finishing long and perfumed." 450 cases were produced.
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