BV - Georges De Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley 2021 (750ml)
Price: $167.00
| Producer | BV |
| Country | USA |
| Region | California |
| Varietal | Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Sku | 10360 |
| Size | 750ml |
Jeb Dunnuck: 98+ Points
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.
Vinous: 98 Points
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. - By Antonio Galloni on May 2024 This is another set of stellar wines from Beaulieu Vineyard and winemaker Trevor Durling. BV is arguably one of the most improved estates in Napa Valley over the last few years. Today?s wines offer terrific energy in a style that marries textural resonances with vibrancy. In short the wines show more clarity and definition than in the past which is great to see.
James Suckling: 98 Points
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.
Wine Spectator: 95 Points
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.?James Molesworth Beaulieu Vineyard?s Georges de Latour has a long history dating to its inaugural vintage of 1936. De Latour himself hired the legendary André Tchelistcheff as winemaker in 1938; Tchelistcheff would go on to steward the bottling for the next 35 years. Select vintages from his tenure across the 1950s ?60s and early ?70s are considered benchmark wines for California Cabernet. After a rocky period through the 1980s and ?90s BV is enjoying a renaissance with a new winery built in 2008 and additional investment after the winery was acquired by Treasury Wine Estates in 2016. Winemaker Trevor Durling was hired in 2017 and hit a high note with this classic-rated 2021 in a superb vintage.
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