The #2 Top 100 Wines of 2024 Wine Spectator
99 pts. Wilfred Wong of Wine.com 99 pts.
Deep garnet in color, the 2021 Beaulieu Vineyard Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon may rank among the winery’s greatest achievements since the legendary 1958 and 1951 vintages. The wine unfolds with refined aromas of black fruits, bold berries, and a whisper of dark chocolate. On the palate, it is sublime—delivering a graceful tapestry of persistent black fruits, graphite, and finely woven oak nuances. Savor it alongside a dry-aged côte de boeuf, simply seasoned and finished with a red wine reduction. (Tasted: July 23, 2025, San Francisco, CA, USA)
98 pts. Jeb Dunnuck
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.
Rating: 98+
98 pts. James Suckling
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.