July 6, 2023 - Very uninspiring bottle, i've had 98 tapestry that has showed better than this. Hoping just bottle variation.
March 27, 2023 - Drinking well, delicious, especially for an average at best vintage.
December 18, 2022 - A friend had been given this a few years back and she shared it with us. She kept it in her cabinet (no temp control) for several years, at least, so I did not have high hopes for it. No matter, it was drinking beautifully! A really lovely and elegant, mature Cabernet, with silky mouthfeel and still an ample amount of fruit. Not sure how this bottle survived those conditions, but it was fantastic.
October 2, 2022 - Quite a lovely wine. I doubt this ever was a barn-burner but there is a decent amount of quality fruit remaining in this otherwise fully resolved Cabernet.
May 7, 2022 - Some black fruit, dried berry, forest floor. Resolved, mature but still a bit of acidity to keep it fresh. Solid mature Napa!
May 3, 2022 - VSI FFOM Cult Wines
February 27, 2022 - Excellent aged well cherry bloom on opening and smooth tannins, little expression of stems in tannins. Lovely wine for its age! Table loved it more than 2017.
November 6, 2021 - Still drinking beautifully. Strong but overwhelming tannins. Long finish. Dark red fruits, some sweet tobacco. Had at Charter Oak in St Helena
December 8, 2019 - Holding well .decanted for an hour .it has 5+ years longer at least ..it drank wonderful!
April 22, 2019 - BV Georges de Latour Vertical from 4 Decades: '64, '80, '84, '89, '98 (St. Paul, MN): Very dark red plus color with a 3mm clear margin. Splash decanted and drank a glass over almost 2 hours. A beautiful showing for the '98, eclpised only by the ethereal '64. It didn't start out that way though. Initial aromas suggested somewhat stewed fruit, mission fig and brown sugar and thoughts that this didn't hold up or was heat damaged. Yet there was none of those qualities on the palate ever. Then the dramatic evolution in glass began as first the stewed character slipped away and then a perfume emerged that cocntinued to build over the next hour. The perfume was a high pitched mix of crushed flowers and black and blue fruits, cedarbox, lead pencil and a fruitcake like mix of dried fruits and spices. The palate espoused those same characteristics in a well blended mix of dark berries, cassis and more subtle blue fruits, pencil, mineral, Medium body and round tannins. This really needed the oxygen to shed the old bottle aromas and blossom. Lots of life left here and a wine that will still reward further aging I think.