1969 Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

Community Tasting Notes (12) Median Score: 90 points

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  3/4/2024 - RockinCabs wrote: 91 Points

  A really nice bright red fruited wine with spice, cigar tobacco, mint and some almond notes. Started with a bit of the BV "sherry" note, typical of these older bottles, but really cleaned up and came together into an elegant mature wine. Palate offering plum skin, cherry, mint and clove as this came together in glass.
  
  Lighter bodied, high acidity, and slightly fragile fruit at this point. However it provides a nice historic reference point for the wines made by Andre in the early days of Napa's renaissance.

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  3/6/2021 - derrington Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Cork came apart, but we were fortunate and were able to extract it. Ruby color with clearness on the edge. Very fine sediment in the last couple ounces, stood it upright a week in advance. Once open, I decanted and proceeded immediately to the first glass. Acidity and structure holding up very well. I was not expecting it to be so vibrant. Redwood, mint, thyme were initially most prominent with red fruits in the deep in the background. The fruit was more prominent in the second glass presenting red plum, pomegranate and a bit of cherry with the thyme and redwood in balance with the fruit. The fruit very bright front and center on the last glass. It still has years of life ahead of it, but this is my last bottle. Really remarkable.

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  10/30/2019 - salcorn wrote: 92 Points

  Still decent fruit, redwood, forest floor. Holding up fairly well.

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  2/19/2019 - Decanting Queen Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was at Bern’s and this bottle was obviously perfectly stored over the last 50 years. The cork was in great condition and the color was dark and youthful ruby. Still plenty of fruit left and also some wonderful tertiary flavors that I can’t describe. We were disappointed that this was the last bottle.

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  3/3/2017 - yerrbo wrote: 92 Points

  brought this to a restaurant and let the Somm have a glass as well. The cork took a bit of patience to get out but it relented in one piece. We decanted and filtered out the sediment. On first glance the wine was very dark which worried me even more. To the nose it smelled of a refined funky molasses. My initial tasting was quite surprising as it brought hints of cherry and pomegranate. If it weren't so smooth and complex I would say it was young as it exhibited a vibrancy that I haven't tasted in older Cabs before. (Although I'm no expert so this may be common) The finish carried the vibrancy for some time sort of dancing on my palate. I was shocked at how good this is given that this was a 48 year old standard bottling and the Somm commented to me how floored he was that not only was the bottle still good but that it was this good.
  
  This gives me much hope for the other bottles I have.

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