Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve 2003

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Varietal

Region

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Vintage
2003

Size
750ML

Features
Collectible

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Winemaker Notes

Georges de Latour is the classic, original Reserve California wine. Aged 20 months in oak, it reflects many decades' experience with our historic vineyards in Napa. Hand-harvested fruit, whole berries, careful but vigorous extraction during fermentation, and gentle handling throughout provide wine for the ages.

This wine is nearly opaque black-ruby color with purple highlights. The aromas show the strength of black fruits, licorice, black pepper, and minerals, with Rutherford accents of black olive, peppercorn, and dark cherry. Full-bodied in texture, this wine has pronounced, dense and concentrated flavors of black currant, anise, sweet vanilla, and distinctive minerality. The rich tannins are balanced by medium acidity providing freshness.

Professional Ratings

  • 95

    Just classic Georges, balanced, elegant and refined, hiding its power under a blanket of controlled finesse. There's great depth of flavor, with oodles of blackberry, cherry and raspberry, mocha, Chinese plum sauce, soy and spicy oak, wrapped in firm, dry tannins. Just wonderful now, but with the certainty of a long life ahead.

    Cellar Selection

  • 91

    Winemakers Joel Aiken and Jeffrey Stambor waited three weeks after the mid-September heat spikes of 2003 to start picking cabernet, meanwhile keeping the vines refreshed with a sprinkler system. Their 2003 is more massive than traditional Georges de Latour, but it still retains the trademark elegance of this Rutherford wine. The dark, chocolate-cherry flavors are held firm by tannin, with a graphite minerality that keeps it structured for ten years of age.

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