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  • Decanting time

    2h
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    now - 2045
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    Roasted Veil

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The high-quality 2012 harvest was a winemaker's dream. The relaxed, easy vintage was greatly appreciated after the challengingly cool weather patterns in 2011. Long stretches of sunny days coupled with foggy nights gave our 2012 wines exceptionally rich, expressive flavors and impeccable balance. The ideal growing season, including well-timed rains, no frost during bud break, and perfect weather for bloom, berry-set and ripening, was textbook ...

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The Story

Our Georges de Latour Cabernet Sauvignon has been widely recognized as the benchmark Cabernet Sauvignon from Rutherford since its inaugural vintage in 1936. Our understanding of terroir comes from more than 100 years of creating rich, classic Napa Valley wines. Our legacy honors the marriage between state-of-the-art technology and gentle, traditional winemaking methods, a combination that enhances the expression of our remarkable vineyards.

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Offering abundant, dark-fruit character and plush texture, our 2012 Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon reflects the sunny and dry growing season. The wine opens with layered aromas of crushed blackberries, dark cherries, bittersweet chocolate and violet. Ripe, muscular tannins support the expansive, dark-fruit flavors, while impeccably balanced acidity adds vibrancy. Complex nuances of toffee and toasted oak spices, from agin...

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Bright ruby. Youthfully medicinal aromas of cassis, licorice, violet, bitter chocolate and spices; this smells like a barrel sample! Highly concentrated, densely packed, chewy and sweet but a bit youthfully monolithic today, with its very ripe, plush black fruit flavors in need of more time in bottle to gain in nuance. Not a particularly high-pitched wine, this big boy will rely more on its substantial tannins than on its moderate acidity for structure and longevity. (15.5% alcohol; 3.7 pH; 5.8 g/l acidity; aged for 22% in 90% new French oak)

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Origin

Rutherford, Napa Valley

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At our state-of-the-art winery, dedicated exclusively to Georges de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon, we hand sorted the destemmed berries to retain only the highest quality fruit. Winemaker Jeffrey Stambor then fermented 45 percent of the grapes in new French oak barrels for early integration of fruit and oak character and to enhance the dense, rich texture. The balance of the must was fermented in stainless steel tanks. Following judicious extended skin contact and in-barrel malolactic fermentation, the wine was pressed and returned to barrels for aging. Jeffrey blended the Cabernet Sauvignon with a small amount of Petit Verdot and Malbec to further enhance the wine’s aroma and flavor spectrum.

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