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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.7 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 410 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by thesternowl on 1/18/2024 flawed bottle: 1997 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Retrospective (Omaha, NE): Something wasn't right with this bottle. It seemed cooked...lifeless. (993 views) | | | Tasted by TAB Wine on 1/1/2024: Was good with prime rib and paired great with cranberry sauce. Definitely needed food to kick it up, won’t last much longer (783 views) | | | Tasted by rocknroller on 12/31/2023 flawed bottle: New Years Eve (Rocknroller's (Kevin & Vicki's Place)): Sadly, this was heat damaged and pruned. (1003 views) | | | Tasted by MN Wine Junkie on 12/31/2023 flawed bottle: 2023 New Years Eve Celebration! (Kevin's House): Heat damaged, I suspect. (956 views) | | | Tasted by bestdamncab on 12/30/2023 & rated 91 points: Nose of black cherry, black berry, allspice and dry earth, on the palate, medium/big body, very tasty, mouth filling fruit, showing its age, smooth, mellow, medium/long finish. (906 views) | | | Tasted by Nerdy Earth Boy on 12/27/2023 & rated 95 points: EXCEPTIONAL! And seriously MUCH better after a few days in the fridge (almost a week). Significant sediment with a dry cork so needs filtering. But this aged NAPA CAB continues to deliver well beyond expectations. All the classic notes of Cabernet Sauvignon. (522 views) | | | Tasted by funderwood10 on 8/6/2023 & rated 93 points: Cork, perfect. Cherry, blackberries, and vanilla on the nose (the tiniest barnyard). At first fruit, still alive and a bit muted, then a refreshing wash of tart acid (feels like cherry pie), combines to fruit aromas circling the ceiling in my mouth, and acid on the tongue, at the bottom of the mouth below the tongue is a mild grip of friendly tannins. It’s a harmonious and chill but fun and vibrant structure. It’s prime juice, with edges of tertiary but feels like mostly well buttressed primary flavor wine. Perhaps needs more time for the tertiary to further emerge but it’s a damn fine wine right now. sad it’s my only bottle, will look out for more. (1074 views) | | | Tasted by ifishtoo on 6/26/2023 & rated 94 points: Still going but drink up. Got that dusty cherry thing going on. Lovely old Napa Cab. (1067 views) | | | Tasted by wabi47 on 6/16/2023 & rated 95 points: Great nose; deep and dense perfectly ripe (in a Napa kinda way) mixed wild berry with plenty of clean earth adding gravitas; so smooth. Some bottle variation for me, and this was the best bottle to date. (1085 views) | | | Tasted by Nerdy Earth Boy on 4/23/2023 & rated 95 points: Precious! Tons of sediment with a long decant finally revealed a beautiful bounty of florals. Absolutely luscious deep garnet. Quite a gem. (1513 views) | | | Tasted by docdavid on 4/20/2023: Nose implied great drink .Still has fruit ,mild tannins ,and ruby color . A terrific hit with all and coq au vin
Not sure how much longer it has but decanted 1 hour after cellaring for 20 years (1368 views) | | | Tasted by 52winelover on 3/9/2023 & rated 93 points: 26 years young and drinking well. (1177 views) | | | Tasted by bsumoba on 3/5/2023 & rated 94 points: Napa and a lone Kiwi (Casa de Sumoba): Last bottle. Cork in great condition. Brick colored. No flaws. Classic old school Napa. Wet earth, moss and mushrooms with a bit of dried orange peel. Moving into its tertiary flavor profile. Drink now, but might hold up for a few more years. (1545 views) | | | Tasted by WineBurrowingWombat on 3/4/2023 & rated 94 points: Don't tease me like that unless you mean it (Chateau de Brion): On the nose are lovely aged red fruits with a gentle touch of pleasant leathery notes, gentle olive notes, and some cigar wrappings. On the palate are cherries, really subtle cranberries, dried and air exposed oak, leather, and a pleasant play on earth and stone. Nice showing this evening. Now might be a good time to drink but can obviously still go for years, depending how much tertiary notes you enjoy. For me, I'd enjoy these now. (1614 views) | | | Tasted by wabi47 on 1/23/2023 & rated 93 points: great nose; mixed generous wild berry with a liqueur-like component; after a glass, realized that there was a ton of finer sediment still floating in the bottle. even after a decant, there is some residual, so let the bottle stand prior to drinking.
btw, cork fell apart, recommend ah so
vibrant with nice acidity on day three, so no worry about holding these. (1031 views) | | | Tasted by Hanibal on 8/14/2022 & rated 92 points: Smokey and needed air but still has fruit with a medium long length (2258 views) | | | Tasted by Kfoley009 on 8/4/2022 & rated 93 points: Just starting to show some age. Still great after a short decant. (1278 views) | | | Tasted by P.A. Cross on 4/7/2022: Opaque red with bricking, cedary, clean earth, ripe plums, slightly reserved. Medicinal, minty berry liqueur, sweet cherry, and some mild persistent tannin. Nice wine, but out shown by the 97 Arrowood RS. (1943 views) | | | Tasted by SCM Fan on 4/1/2022 & rated 95 points: Popped cork just before dinner of grilled NY steak and sauteed mushrooms. Poured glass for wife and myself. Slight bricking at rim. Color still quite dark. Old school Napa Cab at 13.5% Alc. Nose of cigar box, tobacco and dark cherries. Long finish on this still. Incredibly smooth and silky at this age. Last glass after 3 hours starting to go flat. Drink soon. Glad to have found this gem deep in the cellar. (1847 views) | | | Tasted by Magnaluke on 3/31/2022: Okay (1689 views) | | | Tasted by slywka7 on 2/20/2022 & rated 95 points: Popped and decanted. Served a bit cool but warmed up fast. Aromas of currant, blackberry, tobacco, dried cherry and dried plum. Flavors of blackberry, dried cherry, dried current, hint of plum, earth and fruitcake. Ends with a fabulous 40 second finish with blackberry and dried cherry notes. This still has a lot of fruit and is mouth coating. Excellent! (1401 views) | | | Tasted by martin_e on 1/8/2022 & rated 94 points: Dark ruby, clean color. The wine starts a bit simple with black cherry and plumb, almost like some straightforward Merlots, but gradually adds complexity with spicy red berries (gooseberry and European hawthorn berry, familiar from the place we grew up), tobacco and light spices. Very pleasant multi-layer wine. (1555 views) | | | Tasted by marshalc on 12/26/2021 flawed bottle: Bought at auction. Not in good shape. Proceed with caution. Could just be a bad bottle. (1215 views) | | | Tasted by NapaRick on 12/19/2021 & rated 90 points: Very nice wine for its age. It was eminently drinkable, but I think it may be on the start of its downward slide.
The wine looks ruby colored. The legs are medium. There is moderate sediment in the bottle. It smells like blackberry and red currant. It tastes like blackberry. The body is full. The wine has smooth texture. The wine finishes medium. The wine has low acidity. (1216 views) | | | Tasted by bsumoba on 11/25/2021 & rated 92 points: Aged Napa wine! 24 years young and this is definitely moving into the tertiary flavor profile. I get a lot of maple syrup, reduction notes and some mushroom forest floor. Some slight fruit notes but maybe more along the lines of dried fruit. Compared to the 99' Peter Michael Les Pavots I had yesterday, this one progressed much faster in its evokution. Two bottles left of a wine that my wife and I had on our very first date back in 2008. My have the times moved fast. Drink now! (1779 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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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 1997 Napa Valley Cabernets (Sep 2017) (9/1/2017)
(Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges De Latour Private Reserve Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Stephen Tanzer
Vinous, November/December 2000, IWC Issue #93
(Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges de Latour Private Reserve Napa Valley) Subscribe to see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (12/27/2003)
(Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges de Latour Private Reserve) Vanilla, oak and chocolate nose; rich, concentrated, plum, blackberry, cassis and vanilla palate with sweet tannins; long finish 95 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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