1989 Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Rutherford

Community Tasting Notes (6) Median Score: 89 points

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  8/7/2022 - RockinCabs wrote: 89 Points

  This really worried me upon opening with a raisin note, but it blew off with a slow ox. Aged leather, red cherry, dusty tannin and licorice notes. Classic old school Rutherford bench.
  
  Others I popped this with were more impressed, but for me it was a sevicable aged napa cab that is a bit past peak.

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  3/13/2018 - rocknroller wrote: flawed

  Old Beaulieu Vineyard Wines (Cotroneo's, White Bear Lake, MN): Perfect fill, good cork. Pale orange color. DOA, gone, gone, gone. Undrinkable.

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  2/20/2012 - JeremyQ wrote:

  Great fill in the bottle, amazing for such an old wine. A little bit of bricking, a touch of sourness on the nose. Red fruits but the sourness is there with a black tea, almost steminess to boot. Still drinkable but past its prime. Interesting experiment.

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  9/4/2007 - Mark wrote: 89 Points

  Delightful, well aged balanced, and drinking very well now. Purchased directly from the winery in 2007, so I hope this is the best example of the 89 that there is. Tobacco leaf, leather, cassis and menthol notes. Elevated acidity, with a medium length finish that ends with pronounced tobacco, subtle oak and lingering red current. This is no blockbuster, it’s significantly lighter in weight than I remember when I tasted it last in 2005, but it’s very well balanced, soft and nice aromatics and finish. Certainly this wine is in decline, but I still found it very enjoyable for what it was.

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  9/30/2005 - Mark wrote: 90 Points

  This bottle came direct from the winery. In a word, not at all bad. I’ve have never been a huge fan of the Rutherford, but BV was making very different wines back then. Crushed aged cherries and dried leaves. I get smoke and some oak. The nose has a burnt caramel note with a medicinal element so typical in many of BV’s older wines. Tannins are soft and well balanced. Finish is medium in length, a little thin right off but does linger on the palette for some time. Although not terribly deep and complex, this wine is drinking perfectly right now. I found myself surprised that I wished I had more of this in the cellar.

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