Tapestry is Beaulieu Vineyard's (BV) red wine made of all 5 Bordeaux grapes (actually, 5 of the 6; I'm still waiting for a California winery to start using Carmenere). But there's no mistaking this wine for a Bordeaux! The nose presents a lot of fruit, mostly cherry, but the fruit is matched by the vanilla and spice from the oak barrels, a level not associated with many wines from France. On the palate, after breathing for about 25 minutes, it is exhibiting the contradictory characteristics of being still very tight, but at the same time, disappointingly thin. It's not unbalanced, but there's just not a great deal going on, certainly less than you would expect for a wine selling in the $40 price range.
Hoping that it would improve with some breathing, I let it sit for another 2 hours. It's opening up a little, but still not impressive. Perhaps this is a wine that needs several years of cellaring to come into its own, but for now, it's a wine to pass on.
Not recommended.
