1964 Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges de Latour Private Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (22) Median Score: 90 points

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  12/2/2023 - RockinCabs wrote: flawed

  California Wine Weekend; 12/1/2023-12/3/2023 (Mos Eisley Cantina & Waterhouse Restaurant): Completely oxidized

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  3/19/2023 - Andyrodriguez87 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This was a hard wine served blind! The color in the glass was pretty light with bricking around the edges. Upon opening, this has so many old Barolo tells - tar, celery seed, fenugreek, but also still fruited… wasn’t even close! The wine is VERY much alive, with tannin and acid still present along with tertiary aromas of tar, celery seed and cherries. A wine of yesteryear with no sense of being over the top and aging so gracefully. Super cool!

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  1/29/2023 - RockinCabs wrote: 96 Points

  Nose: Intense weighty dark cherry, tobacco, spearmint and wood. This really means business, and had incredible depth on the nose.
  
  Palate: Opens with dark inky layers of nori, umami and dark plum. But with air it unfolds red berries, blackberry, cassis and blueberry notes, sweet dusty tannin, more mint and herbs. Exceptional silky mouthfeel and pliant tannin that remains gives the wine unusual heft. Gorgeous fruit and overall freshness that is remarkable at nearly 60-years old.
  
  Finish: Length is wonderful and offers all of the fruit, wood and spice notes you would want. This is a slow burn, and right now still aging at a glacial pace.
  
  This was an outstanding bottle, and was my WOTN with some very serious old Napa next to it.

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  1/29/2023 - englishman's claret wrote: 94 Points

  It’s amazing what a bruiser this is and how long it takes to open, really needing an hour of air to show its best. But eventually those nori, black earth, and ink notes are joined by a mix of red and black cherry and a fresh mineral note. A serious temperament, more impressive than charming, evolving at a surprisingly slow pace.

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  4/22/2019 - rocknroller wrote: 96 Points

  BV Georges de Latour Vertical from 4 Decades: '64, '80, '84, '89, '98 (St. Paul, MN): Medium dark red color with subtle bricking. The color was quite promising. Splash decanted and drank a glass plus over an hour plus. Oh what a beautiful bottle. Right from the start this was simply singing. Such a pretty nose with the perfume clearly there immediately and growing moment by moment with every minute of air; great purity with a juxtaposition of bright red berries, red cherry, and blue fruits mixed with fine leather, a bit of funk and dried earth , and finely ground tobacco. The palate is also a wow, sleek, near perfection, red fruits with a streak of cassis and blueberry, dried red cherry, lacquer, leather, tobacco leaf. There's amazing intensity of flavor at 55 years and this is simply seamless, an amazing wine of grace and purity. Very long and tantalizing with depth and complexity, well resolved, and more than enough fruit. This bottle, at the least, does make you believe that Andre was a genius and clearly did make a gold standard wine comparable to the best in the world. I'm sure they don't all survive this way, but when they do! I could envision well stored bottles going another 10 years or maybe more. 96-97pts easily.

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