2021, Beaulieu Vineyard, Georges de Latour, Private Reserve

BEAULIEU VINEYARD is an historic Californian property established by Georges de Latour and his wife Fernande in 1900 and considered one of the great Napa Valley wines. "This is an important wine within the history of Napa." Jane Anson.

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.
98+ Jeb Dunnuck.

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 harmonised way. Hints of chocolate and fruit at the end. Some tar. Drinkable but better in a few years. Try in 2027 and beyond.
98 James Suckling.

Excellent quality, full of flavour, balanced, cassis, liquorice and cocoa bean, espresso, sage, drawn out through the palate. A wonderful example of an intense, concentrated BV, full of estate signature. Tasted twice.
97 Jane Anson