2013 RESERVE TAPESTRY

Beaulieu Reserve wines are handcrafted from the finest grapes of the vintage, focusing on our premier estates in Rutherford, Carneros and other Napa Valley appellations. For more than 100 years, Beaulieu Vineyard has set the benchmark for rich, classic Napa Valley wines. Our legacy honors the marriage between state-of-the-art technology and gentle, traditional winemaking methods, a combina- tion that enhances the expression of our remarkable vineyard terroir.

TASTING NOTES Our 2013 Tapestry reflects the 2013-growing season with its dense, powerful aromas and flavors, with bold structure. This is a wine that shows the artistry of blending five Bordeaux-heritage grape varieties, which contributed layer-upon-layer of flavor complexity. gave the wine its generous core of briary blackberry and cassis expression, while we increased the amount of this year to tame the tannins and add plush mid-palate texture. Malbec contributed deep plum notes, while Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot completed the blend with nuances of rose, forest loam and graphite.

VINTAGE The 2013 vintage yielded highly concentrated grapes that became generous, intense wines with muscular tannin structure. A very low-rainfall winter was followed by a dry, warm spring and nearly ideal summer, which led to an early harvest. These factors resulted in balanced vine canopies, excellent fruit set and small, concentrated grapes. Perfect weather throughout the harvest fostered intensely expressive and beautifully balanced wines.

SOURCING VINEYARD Napa Valley We chose specific blocks of reserve-quality grapes that would give Tapestry the COMPOSITION combined attributes of fruit expression and softer tannins for relatively early 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 22% Merlot, approachability. Half of the Cabernet Sauvignon was grown on the famous western 5% Petit Verdot, 5% Malbec, benchlands of the Rutherford American Viticultural Area (AVA) and the balance 3% Cabernet Franc from the Stags Leap District, St. Helena and Calistoga AVAs. The Merlot sourcing VINIFICATION was split between our in the warmer parts of Carneros and the Rutherford 22 months, 85% European oak (French, Bench. The Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec came from our estate vineyards Russian & Hungarian), 15% American oak, in St. Helena and Calistoga. 50% new barrels WINEMAKING ANALYSIS We tailored the winemaking for each varietal to best capture the personality of both Alc: 14.8% TA: 5.7 g/L pH: 3.72 the vintage and specific vineyard block. Cold soaking of the destemmed grapes, gentle AGEABILITY punch-downs in open-top fermentors and in-barrel malolactic fermentation all 2016 to 2023 contributed to this wine’s richly textured flavors. Aging in 50 percent new oak barrels balanced the wine impressive depth varietal expression with toffee and spice nuances.

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