92 Robert Parker - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

"My least favorite of these wines (although still outstanding) are the 400 cases of the 2008 Cult, which come from a single-vineyard parcel within the holdings of Beau Vigne. Aged 22 months in mostly French oak, the wine has a deep ruby/purple color and plenty of black cherry and black currant fruit, with hints of licorice, graphite, herbs and smoke. It is medium to full-bodied, still somewhat closed, but promising. This is one of my favorite unheralded producers in Napa Valley. The wines have off-the-charts richness, great balance, and the potential (at least in the case of the Juliet and the Reserve) to be aged for 20 or more years. There is a striking purity and intensity to these wines that merits serious attention. They all come from a small nine-acre vineyard in the Stags Leap appellation."