Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve 2012 Front Label

Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve 2012

Cabernet Sauvignon from Napa Valley, California

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750ML / 15.2% ABV

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750ML / 15.2% ABV

Winemaker Notes

Offering abundant, dark fruit character and inviting, plush texture, our 2012 Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon reflects the warm, sunny and dry growing season. The wine opens with layered aromas of crushed blackberries, dark cherries, bittersweet chocolate and violet. Ripe, muscular tannins support the expansive, dark-fruit flavors, while impeccably balanced acidity adds vibrancy. Complex nuances of toffee and toasted oak spices, from aging in new French oak barrels, heighten the aromas and linger on the persistent finish.

Pairing: This wine makes an elegant accompaniment to filet mignon with forest mushrooms.

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James Suckling

Lots of asphalt, walnut, licorice and blackberry character. Full body, chewy and tannic with loads of structure and tension. Muscular and poised. Needs four or five years more of aging. Solid.

RP 94

Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

The deep ruby/purple-colored 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Private Reserve Georges de Latour is BV’s flagship wine. It boasts sweet notes of charcoal, burning embers, vanillin, tar and copious quantities of blackcurrant fruit. In keeping with this generously endowed vintage, the wine is supple, full-bodied, multidimensional and opulent. It will drink beautifully young and last for 20-25 years.

WW 94

Wilfred Wong of Wine.com

One the very best Georges De Latours in a lifetime of pleasures—I have experienced nearly every vintage since the winery's maiden vintage from 1936. The 2012 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges De Latour Private Reserve Cabernet offers outstanding richness and shows a completeness that is sometimes missing in ultra-premium wines. From blackcurrants to sweet earth and a slight accent of oak, this elegant wine deserves savoring. Drinking nicely now, but needing time to reach its crescendo. (Tasted: May 9, 2016, San Francisco, CA)

WE 94

Wine Enthusiast

One of the appellation's more famous wines, this opens in black licorice and blackberry, alongside a streak of malted chocolate, soft and sinewy, with a tension of acidity that adds age-worthy structure. Dense and interesting now, it'll get better over time, cellaring well through 2027.

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