Beaulieu - Georges De Latour Private Reserve

Beaulieu - Georges De Latour Private Reserve - Napa Valley 2021

Beaulieu Georges de Latour Private Reserve, a legendary wine

The 2021 Vintage:

The 2021 season was excellent, producing fruit of exceptional quality thanks to spring rains that favored flowering and fruit set. Bud break occurred in April, followed by a consistent maturation with veraison in July. The low yields resulted in intense berries. 2021 will be remembered as one of Napa Valley's most exceptional years.

Tasting notes:

This is a truly remarkable vintage of our iconic flagship wine. The bouquet is intense with fragrant notes of wild sage, blackcurrant, cedar, and fresh mint. The palate is expansive and full bodied with a sumptuous mouthfeel, showcasing layers of ripe blackberry, redcurrant, and red rose petal alongside earthier tones of graphite, licorice root, gravely stone, and dark chocolate. There is significant presence, depth, and concentration in this Private Reserve, foreshadowing cellar-worthy potential that will continue to evolve, unfold, and develop across the next few decades.

Wine Advocate

byJoe Czerwinskithe10/17/2024

BV's 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve Georges de Latour is smooth, melded, cedary and complete. Cherries and gentle earth notes mark the nose, framed by new French oak (95%), while the palate is medium to full-bodied, tannic yet silky, with a lingering, cigar box finish.

Wine Spectator

byJames Molesworththe9/4/2024

N°2 TOP 100 WINE SPECTATOR

This is packed with dark, winey flavors of black currant and blackberry paste underscored with alder, sweet tobacco, warm paving stone and black licorice notes, while a violet accent fills the background. The polished finish makes this accessible now, but there's plenty of life ahead. Drink now through 2042. 7,289 cases made.

The Drink Business

byColin Haythe8/31/2024

(Rutherford AVA, Napa Valley; 94% Cabernet Sauvignon; 6% Petit Verdot; pH 3.64; 14.7% alcohol). Plum and damson, peony and gladioli. A little rose petal too – with more to come on the palate. This is a wine that I have found rather foursquare in recent vintages; not in this. Almost Bordelais in its crystallinity, but the density and compactness here is considerable. There’s also a lot of tannin, but it’s so fine-grained as to be very well disguised. Impressive. Juicy and fresh. Delicious.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

byJane Ansonthe6/27/2024

Excellent quality, full of flavour, balanced, cassis, liqourice and cocoa bean, espresso, sage, drawn out through the palate. A wonderful example of an intense, concentrated BV, full of estate signature. Tasted twice. 95% new oak for ageing, 3.64ph, harvest September 25 to October 13.

Vinous

byAntonio Gallonithe5/1/2024

The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Georges de Latour is outrageously beautiful. A wine of statuesque build and class, the 2021 represents another major step forward for BV. Black cherry, plum, spice, new leather, menthol, mocha and gravel soar from the glass. This is an especially refined vintage for this flagship wine. Here, too, there is plenty of tannin, but it is not anywhere near as perceptible as it was in the past. Shorter macerations and gentler overall winemaking, including fewer lots vinified in barrel, have elevated the Georges meaningfully.

Decanter.com

byJonathan Cristaldithe4/11/2024

What a spectacular showing of this iconic wine in the terrific 2021 vintage. Deep ruby with a purple hue, it just exudes elegance and statesmanship. It has a noble quality to it that begins with its precise and lifted bouquet of dried rose petals, kirsch, Blackberry, and cassis fruit interlaced with sagebrush, sandalwood, and toasty cedarwood. Perfectly medium to full-bodied, showcasing a dazzling spectrum of silken red and black fruits redolent of strawberry, cherry, plum, and blackberry atop a substantial bed of taut, mineral-tinged tannins. A spine of racy acidity lifts the panoply of fruit, and the finish reveals a plethora of wild herbs, cast iron notes, pastille, and white pepper, nuanced by rich, toasty oak infused with toffee and vanilla bean. It is one of the most satisfying and immediately enjoyable expressions of the Georges de Latour Private Reserve in the last decade. Produced by Trevor Durling, the fourth winemaker to follow in the footsteps of the great André Tchelistcheff.

Jamessuckling.com

byJames Sucklingthe2/1/2024

Intense aromas of iodine, blackcurrants, cedar, sandalwood and mint follow through to a medium to full body with silky tannins that spread across the palate and expand in a balanced and harmonized way. Hints of chocolate and fruit at the end. Some tar. Drinkable but better in a few years. Try in 2027 and beyond.

Jeb DUNNUCK

byJeb Dunnuckthe12/26/2023

N°13 TOP 100 JEB DUNNUCK 2024

Lastly, the flagship 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Georges De Latour Private Reserve is in the same ballpark as the 2019 and is an incredibly elegant yet concentrated 2021 that does everything right. Purple-hued, with ample cassis, wild sage, graphite, and darker chocolate-like aromatics, it picks up a Graves-like gravelly earth character with air and is full-bodied, has ripe, polished tannins, beautiful overall balance, and a great finish. As with many of the top 2021s, it s a touch reserved and closed and needs 4-5 years of bottle age, but will drink well for 30 years.

Information:	Details:
Couleur	Rouge
Cépages	Cabernet Sauvignon 94 % Petit Verdot 6 %
Appellation	Napa Valley
Millesime	2021
Contenance	Bouteille (75 cl)

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Details:

Couleur

Rouge

Cépages

Cabernet Sauvignon 94 %
Petit Verdot 6 %

Appellation

Napa Valley

Millesime

2021

Contenance

Bouteille (75 cl)

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