This is one of the finest efforts from Beaulieu in some time. Not since the mid-eighties has BV made a Private Reserve Cabernet with such richness and potential. The wine boasts a dark ruby/purple color, an attractive nose of sweet, toasty new oak, and ripe red and black fruits. In the mouth, there is a layered texture, full-bodied richness, excellent purity, and sweet tannin in the long finish. This wine can be drunk now as well as over the next 15-20 years. Bravo to BV!

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Complex floral, black cherry, spice and currant aromas lead to a rich, polished, deftly balanced wine offering mature hints of anise and sage, and finishing with a long, lingering aftertaste that's supple and elegant.--California Cabernet '74/'84/'94 retrospective. 13,500 cases made.

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We drank the 1994 Caymus Napa and the 1994 BV Latour side by side with the Kelley's over a nice BBQ dinner. Both wines showed good color, the Caymus was a little cloudy and both had lost some body. The Caymus was a little thin and had a green bell pepper flavor after it was first opened, this flavor faded as the wine opened up. Nothing great - the wine was well past its prime but for being 18 years old it held up. The BV showed a little better, medium body, dried fruit, rutherford dust and a light finish. No oak was left in either bottle.