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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.4 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 283 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Rusdry on 3/28/2024 & rated 94 points: Still maturing at 11 years, but very drinkable. Oak is still a bit strong, but not dominant. Well integrated and pleasurable with a dry mouth finish. Tasted of dark cherry, tea leaf, and tobacco (291 views) | | | Tasted by manny651 on 3/22/2024 & rated 93 points: aging beautifully (296 views) | | | Tasted by Winiac on 12/27/2023 & rated 94 points: Plush fruit with balanced structure and mature flavors. Nice mouthfeel with long length and pleasant finish. (745 views) | | | Tasted by asplatt19 on 12/16/2023 & rated 95 points: At its peak. (687 views) | | | Tasted by Barry Notes on 8/18/2023 & rated 92 points: Decanted for 1hr and returned to bottle 2 hours prior to service. Clear with moderate amount of very fine sediment. Dark purple w/deep ruby edge, no sign of bricking. Long stained legs. Rotten cork which initially showed in the taste but blew off with time. If not for the cork, this would age years yet as the tannins were still pronounced at the finish. Full throttle juice with no rough edge up front and middle with some firm tannins. Very long finish. $60 winery direct. (1314 views) | | | Tasted by Nomadirish on 7/1/2023 & rated 84 points: Maybe something wrong with my bottle given other comments but this one lost its structure - drinkable but zero body. (1232 views) | | | Tasted by Blackwa on 6/18/2023 & rated 95 points: Delicious. At its peak right now. Drink up! (1184 views) | | | Tasted by redsonly on 6/17/2023 & rated 94 points: Patience rewarded (973 views) | | | Tasted by Rklee4 on 6/15/2023 & rated 95 points: Fantastic! (942 views) | | | Tasted by garygailkrivan on 5/28/2023 & rated 93 points: Smooth Tannins, Dark Fruit, and notes of Leather, Tobacco and Vanilla (820 views) | | | Tasted by Outplaying on 3/11/2023: With DM, EM, Steve. I liked this initially, but when I came back to it later in the night, it seemed big and sweetish, and I lost interest in it. The 94 Diamond Creek was much more to my liking. (892 views) | | | Tasted by WilliamF17 on 2/25/2023 & rated 90 points: Cork leaked but still viable. Good finish, moderate body with solid fruit and even tannin. (741 views) | | | Tasted by AAJR on 12/30/2022 & rated 94 points: PnP'd & was ready to go. Fruity nose. Dark berries, cassis, spice flavors. Integrated tannins - really drinking well. Lots of life left in the this one - DRINK or HOLD. (1333 views) | | | Tasted by Dmjmd on 9/26/2022 & rated 93 points: Tannins balanced. Just about prefect fruit and earth balance (1917 views) | | | Tasted by Quiet Lion on 7/18/2022 & rated 94 points: Decanted briefly. This is showing beautifully. Classic aged Napa Cab with plenty of fruit left and well-integrated palate. A perennial favorite. (2215 views) | | | Tasted by Janstan on 5/2/2022 & rated 92 points: Almost aCoconut taste, delightful. Went well with roasted strip loin of beef (2182 views) | | | Tasted by ruppdavey@yahoo.com on 4/26/2022 & rated 93 points: Excellent wine for a BV GdL. In its prime with sweet blackberry and plumb. Strong but integrated tannins. Looking forward to drinking the rest over next two to three years. (2070 views) | | | Tasted by AllRed on 4/15/2022 & rated 93 points: Friday Group Brown Bag Tasting (R&D's): Double blind. Aromas of incense, dark berry fruit and chocolate. Full-bodied with a bit of a tannic bite. Flavors of black currant, plum and chocolate linger on the finish. Excellent. Easy to pick out as Napa cab sauv. (R&D) (1988 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 3/20/2022 & rated 94 points: A beautiful wine. Lovely ripe and singed bouquet of scorched earth, black cherries, eucalyptus, and fresh herbs. The palate is spicy and complex, with a succulent richness that makes it comes across as resolved, but it possesses power and tannic structure in spades, which will help it grow and evolve even further over the next decade. Long and sapid on the mineral-inflected finish. Drink with a 2+ hour decant or hold another few years. (1362 views) | | | Tasted by DJ Veritas on 1/30/2022 & rated 93 points: Good bottle. I got what I expected for the 2008 GDL. After a short decant the very slight prune vanished showing wonderful bouquet of roses, cherry pie, and black currant. Palate had wonderful and complex structure with a very long finish. I look forward to trying another bottle in 5 years or so. DJV (1880 views) | | | Tasted by sfwinelover1 on 12/20/2021 & rated 93 points: Last of a 6 bottle lot. I’ve been positive, if not effusively so, on prior bottles (I gave 2 away, and a third was consumed before I came on CT), but there’s something about getting to the end of a lot I’ve held for a while, whether wistfulness, development of the wine, or something else, that makes me more observant and appreciative of the bottling, and this was no exception. The cassis, black cherries, blackberries, black currants and plums seemed richer (prior writer’s point that this could be seen as verging on pruniness at least somewhat well taken), the secondary notes of chocolate, tobacco, anise, forest floor and leather a bit more finely etched and deeper, than prior bottles. Highly enjoyable on its own, and a more than solid complement with leftover steak one night and gnocchi another. Yet from the first, this has been a wine with a profoundly mature feeling, something to drink in an overstuffed armchair, beautifully balanced and not without power, but not holding a candle in energy and intensity to the recent, cheaper Capezzana. Continue to recommend drinking sooner than later. 93+ (2527 views) | | | Tasted by levinml on 9/19/2021 & rated 89 points: Huge disappointment for big wine, properly aged from excellent vintage. Seemed pruney and over-the-hill. Can’t guarantee provenance, so maybe something there. (2926 views) | | | Tasted by Mdb1982 on 9/11/2021 & rated 93 points: Bottle seemed less impressive than the previous one. (2673 views) | | | Tasted by Jolayne0 on 8/27/2021 & rated 94 points: Dark fruit, pepper, mushrooms. Bolder than the '07, without the smooth long finish. I still liked it a lot and enjoyed it with our charcuterie board. Paired really well with manchego cheese and calabrese. (2701 views) | | | Tasted by johncontilightinginc@gmail.com on 6/18/2021 & rated 96 points: A true representative of a California Cab. It's still young and can drink for another 10 years. A full bodied Cabernet. Garnet colored with cassis and blackberry flavors and a smooth finish. Loved it! (3443 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, Beaulieu’s Georges de Latour Private Reserve: 1965–2016 (Apr 2019) (4/1/2019)
(Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges De Latour Private Reserve Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, Vintage Retrospective: The 2008 Napa Valley Cabernets (May 2018) (5/18/2018)
(Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges De Latour Private Reserve Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, May/June 2010, IWC Issue #150
(Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges de Latour Private Reserve Napa Valley) Subscribe to see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (2/24/2012)
(Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges de Latour Private Reserve) Dark ruby color; tart berry, black currant, French oak nose; poised, a little tight, tart black currant, blackberry palate; needs 1-2 years; medium-plus finish 91+ points (95% Cabernet Sauvignon, 3% Petit Verdot, 2% Malbec; 27 mos. in 100% French oak; 15.3% alcohol) 91 points |
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| Beaulieu Vineyard Producer website | Profile in The Oenofiles | The Wine Cellar InsiderCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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