Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022
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2495 Old Middlefield Way, Mountain View, CA, 94043
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Rank #1 Top 100 Wines of 2022
100-Point BV Georges de Latour
96 bottles are in stock now but will SELL OUT by EOD!
Orders are fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Limit: 24 bottles maximum per client
100 Points, James Suckling: "Our Wine of the Year 2022 is also a reference point in so many ways. It comes from a long line of great wines from California, and it was first made in 1936 in Napa Valley. Personally, I started drinking this great wine when I was a teenager, receiving an occasional sip from my late father, John Suckling, who collected the wine from the 1960s to 1990s. He even gave me a bottle of the 1962 when I started working at The Wine Spectator in December 1981 and told me to taste and understand it so I “would know about great wine.”
The Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Georges de Latour Private Reserve 2019 is our Wine of the Year 2022. And not only it is a perfect wine, but it is also a wine that highlights the greatness of so many wines from Napa Valley and the United States from the 2019 vintage. The wine is so filigree in nature, with layers of fine tannins and complex aromas and flavors of currants, tobacco and mahogany. Plus, it has the structure to age beautifully for decades ahead."
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Dear Artisans,
Of the last three decades, 2019 is among the greatest vintages of BV Georges de Latour.
It's important to acknowledge that America's original 'cult' wine has respectably held its price at $150 or below for all of those years. I hate to say it, but we all know that's going to change moving forward.
We have 96 bottles left of what's surely the year's best wine gift, as well as a little stock of 2018 and 2017 prior vintages to make a mini vertical.
Cheers!
—James Tran
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2019 BV Georges de Latour Private Reserve
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
100 Points, #1 of 2022 - James Suckling:
"Wow! The aromas to this are really exceptional, with a tangerine edge to the blackcurrants, graphite, lead pencil, flowers and wet earth. It changes all the time. So expressive and refined. Full-bodied with great intensity and depth of fruit. The ultra-fine tannins display millions of layers. The texture on the palate is superb and lasts for minutes. This is the new 1974 George de Latour, which was a legend. Real Napa Valley red here. Drinkable now, to understand it, but truly great in five to six years and onwards. Benchmark." (5/22)
97 Points - Wine Enthusiast:
“Another stunning vintage of this classic wine, blended with 9% Petit Verdot, this wine is dark and brooding in black cherry, cassis and currant, with a rich nose of baking spice. Lengthy and generous in tannin, it shows a backbone of ageworthy structure and complexity, with a lasting thread of dark chocolate. Enjoy best from 2029–2039." - Virginie Boone (11/1/2021)
97 Points - Decanter:
"Fragranced and richly fruited on the nose, vivid and vibrant. Smooth yet with crunchy fruit, this makes an immediate impression. Exuberant, racy and fruit forward with a sense of detail and character. I like the soft floral touches, the sweet blackcurrants and red berry elements, the chalky, minty fresh edges as well as some wild thyme and bay leaf herbal notes and a soft dusting of coffee and cocoa powder. Lots of tension still but also richness and concentration. The powdery yet also fleshy texture is so captivating and together with a mouthwatering capacity gives this wine such star power. Elegant and refined with supreme freshness and a real sense of vibrancy. That said, it's more serious than the stunning 2018, less immediately approachable - it feels cooler but with more precision. One to wait for. Amazing styling going on by winemaker Trevor Durling. This has to be one of the best value Napa Valley wines going. Ageing 20 months in French oak (95% new). More Petit Verdot in the blend than usual at 9%." -GH (7/4/22)
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Oak Treatment: 20 months of aging in French oak (95% new barrels)
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Blend: 91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Petit Verdot
96 bottles are in stock now but will SELL OUT by EOD!
Orders are fulfilled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Limit: 24 bottles maximum per client
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36 bottles left of the previous vintage!
2018 BV Georges de Latour Private Reserve
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
98 Points - James Suckling:
"Blackberry, blackcurrant and mint with some sage and crushed-stone undertones. Full-bodied with chewy tannins that are in-check and nicely polished. Smoke, toasted oak and bark at the end, complementing the fresh yet ripe fruit. Drink after 2024." (14 Jun 2021)
98 Points - Vinous:
"The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Georges de Latour Private Reserve is fabulous. Inky, rich and explosive, the 2018 is a fine addition to the lineage of one of Napa Valley's most historic wines. Inky red fruit, chocolate, leather and licorice all open in the glass. Aeration brings out floral top notes, raspberry and a hint of blood orange. There is plenty of depth, but the tannins are finer than they were a few years ago. Shorter time on the skins and a reduction in barrel fermentations really allow the pedigree of these Rutherford sites to come through. The 2018 is sensational." - Antonio Galloni (Jan 2021)
97 Points - Wine Enthusiast:
"The famous wine lives up to its historic promise in this wonderfully complex and structured vintage, the wine showing an abundance of tension and youthful grip. Earthy in dried herb, cedar and sage, it shares notes of black currant, cassis and forest within a textured and brightly layered foundation of elegant ageablity. Enjoy best from 2028–2038." - Virginie Boone (11/1/2021)
36 bottles left
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- Lowest price in the country
Winery's Price: $150.00 btl
Average Online: $132.00 btl
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Thanksgiving Sale:
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$123.99 btl (1-5)
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$119.99 btl (6-11)
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$115.99 btl (12+)
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12 bottles left of the previous vintage!
2017 BV Georges de Latour Private Reserve
Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
97 Points, #75 Top 100 - James Suckling:
"This is one of the most balanced Georges de Latour, offering currants, minerals, fresh herbs and spices. It’s full-bodied with very fine tannins. Long and focused. Subtle and complex. Very elegant and refined in the end. Reminds me of classic, old vintages from the 1960s and 1970s. Drink or hold." (Sept 2020)
96 Points - Decanter:
"Showcasing the deep slashes of liquorice that you find in Cabernet from Napa, this is layered with concentrated cassis. A more generously spiced, ripe, juicy and pure version than you often find in the savoury, menthol-laced Cabernet of Bordeaux. This is confident and has years of pleasure ahead of it for anyone who owns it. Owned by Treasury Wine Estates, 100,000 bottles made and around 12,000 going through La Place. As one of the key Napa Valley Cabernets, that is part of the history of the valley, it is an exciting wine to have on the Place for the first time in 2020. 95% new oak." (8/2020)
95 Points - Wine & Spirits:
"In great vintages of the 1940s and ’50s, André Tchelistcheff grew Georges de Latour Private Reserve wines that lived for six decades or more. Beaulieu has been through a lot of changes since those early days and this is the first vintage, on release, to show the beautiful elegance those old wines must have had in their time. In 2017, this wine retained its freshness for six days after the bottle was first opened, when there was finally nothing left to taste. But that last taste was still bright and fresh, sustained by dusty Rutherford tannins and an aristocratic structure, infused by delicate red and black currant flavors. Trevor Durling made the wine, his first vintage at Beaulieu, having joined as general manager and head winemaker in time to see the 2017 through the growing season to harvest... Durling credits more care in managing the leaf coverage shading certain parcels or rows of grapes, and more targeted irrigation in 2017, for helping to achieve phenolic ripeness ahead of sugar in the grapes, allowing him to harvest earlier than in the past, with a clearer delineation of the terroir expression in the grapes. By the time the fires hit on October 8, he already had harvested 80 percent of the fruit for this wine, when typically, in the past, the team would have brought in 40 to 50 percent. This may well turn out to be a historic vintage." (12/2020)
12 bottles left
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Winery's Price: $160.00 btl
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Thanksgiving Sale: $139.97 btl
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