“What makes a great wine is the emotion it conveys.” – Julian Fayard

I’ll be honest with you.

The only thing I could possibly think of spending money on instead of this right now? Two gallons of dippin’ dots. Maybe.

Because c’mon - 96 POINTS. Released at $125. Made by the illustrious, the talented, the one and only Julian Fayard?!

And if that’s not enough, our price? Don’t need a crystal ball to know this will move speedy quick.

You probably already know Beau Vigne - whether through some of the immensely popular offers we’ve dropped in your lap, or from when they splashed onto the scene in the early 2000s with huge scores. Robert Parker labeled them “one of my favorite wineries” and they’ve amassed close to TWO DOZEN 95-100-point wines. Taking over Kirk Venge after the 2018 harvest, today they have 100-point winemaking stud Julien Fayard (of Lafite Rothschild, Smith Haut Lafitte, Melka, Quintessa, Realm, Covert Estate…) running the show, and man, he’s just crushing it.

Like $250 Cabs flying off the shelves kinda crushing it. Don’t believe it? Check out this Beau Vigne flagship cherry we have here in the Store today as a highly limited bonus…

Where were we? Juliet! The counterpart to their Romeo offering and both rock. As you can tell, Fayard’s wines don’t come cheap, but they do come hither with all the saturated red and black fruit you can handle. It’s forward and polished, without a hard edge. Loaded with ripe raspberry and red currant, abundant black plums, dark chocolate, and blackberry. Graphite, lavender, tobacco, and terrific minerality circling the wagon, wrapping it all into one pleasing and complete package.

Shouldn’t come as a surprise when the world’s leading luxury lifestyle publication Robb Report points out that “Julien Fayard has been the winemaker of record for more than a few top-shelf Napa wines—more than 20, to be exact… In the crowded field of Napa Valley (and Sonoma Coast’s icon vineyards too), Fayard has carved out memorable space for his own stable of wines.” Truth.

Will. Not. Last. You know the drill!

96 Points – The Somm Journal

“A dynamic profile shows reined-in power. Dense, silky fruit emerges with pencil lead, coffee bean, and crushed violets in a graceful flow of juiciness.”