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2013 Beaulieu Vineyard Rarity Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum

2013 Beaulieu Vineyard Rarity Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum

Beaulieu Vineyard

2013 Beaulieu Vineyard Rarity Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum

$1,600.00
Bottle
Price $1,600.00
To ensure that the quality of Rarity Cabernet is maintained during the shipping process, this wine must be shipped via FedEx Overnight.

Tasting Notes

Tasting Note

The Beaulieu Vineyard 2013 Rarity delivers massive power and weight, yet with uncommon elegance and suppleness. The wine's profuse aromas of blackberry, cassis, dark chocolate and violet are mirrored by the opulent flavors that explode on the palate. Seamlessly integrated vanilla and oak spice nuances, from barrel fermentation and aging in entirely new barrels, add even more complexity to the layered Cabernet Sauvignon expression. Rutherford Dust€ tannins contribute texture, while bright acidity keeps its fresh, purity of focus. This is a wine that will age for decades.

Technical Information

Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage 2013
Volume 1.5 L
Appellation Napa Valley
Blend 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 10% Petit Verdot
Oak Treatment Aged for 22 months in 100% new French and Russian oak barrels.
Alcohol % 15.5%
Enclosure Type Cork
Case Production 125 cases
pH 3.71

Scores & Accolades

  • 99

    Wine Advocate*

    "...Flirting with perfection... this wine is magical. Inky purple/black, with a gorgeous nose of pen ink, cedar wood, vanillin, crème de cassis, and blacker fruits, there’s some forest floor, full-bodied richness, and super-high extract and tannins. It is a massive wine, highly extracted, and built for long, long-term cellaring...” – Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate

    * Listed as 2013 Beaulieu Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon Georges de Latour Le Coeur on Robert Parker Wine Advocate (robertparker.com)

Winemaking

Winemaking

At the winery, we hand sorted first the clusters and then the destemmed grapes to retain only the highest quality fruit. For early integration of oak character and to enhance the supple mouthfeel, 56 percent of the Rarity components were barrel-fermented, with the balance in stainless steel and wood tanks. Following 30 to 35-days of maceration (skin contact) and gentle pressing in a basket press, the wine was returned to barrels for malolactic fermentation and aging. To balance the tremendous intensity of dark fruit character, we chose to age this wine in 100 percent new barrels. Michel Rolland, who has consulted for Beaulieu Vineyard for nearly a decade, blended the wine components with Winemaker Jeffrey Stambor in January 2015, thus giving the wine time to marry before it was bottled in August 2015. Ten percent Petit Verdot from BV Ranch #1 added even more structure and complexity to the Cabernet Sauvignon blend.

Jeffrey Stambor - Former Winemaker

Jeffrey Stambor joined the Beaulieu Vineyard winemaking team in 1989 as a viticulturist/enologist. As the current director of winemaking, he leads production of the winery’s world-renowned Georges de Latour Cabernet Sauvignon, and presided over the harvest and vinification of 2013 Rarity – the extremely limited release Cabernet Sauvignon blend. He is only the fourth director of winemaking in Beaulieu Vineyard’s history, and the third to craft Georges de Latour Private Reserve over the 77-year history of that iconic wine following Andre Tchelistcheff, the original winemaker, and his immediate predecessor, Joel Aiken.

Vintage

Vintage

While Napa Valley winemakers heralded the 2012 vintage as outstanding, the 2013 vintage was a magnificent! The unusually warm, dry winter promoted early budbreak, which gave the vines an early start to the 2013 growing season. Ideal conditions prevailed through flowering, fruit set and ripening, with the low rainfall keeping the grapes desirably small. While harvest was early, the bloom-to-harvest span was not compressed; thus, the Cabernet Sauvignon and Petit Verdot grapes benefited from adequate hangtime to develop exceptionally ripe, balanced flavors.

Vineyard

Napa Valley AVA

Napa Valley

Vineyard

The 2013 Rarity was chosen from the best of the best€ barrel-lots of wine from the outstanding vintage. Through a highly selective process, we narrowed the components for the Rarity blend to represent predominantly old vines in four vineyards: BV Ranch No. 1 and No. 2; our Hewitt Estate Vineyard; and a neighboring small vineyard at the base of the Mayacamas Mountains. The vines, with the majority planted in the 1980s, were grafted to clones that yield small, intensely flavored grapes. All four vineyards are deeply rooted in well-draining, alluvial fan soils on the western bench-lands of Napa Valley's Rutherford AVA.

Former Winemaker Jeffrey Stambor

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