Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve 2012

Professional Ratings

• 95 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.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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.