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Beaulieu Vineyard

Sub-AVA · Rutherford

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Editorial profile

Beaulieu Vineyard is a Rutherford estate whose history begins in 1900, when Georges and Fernande de Latour bought their first four acres of Napa Valley land — the site that gave the winery its name after Fernande's exclamation, "Quel beau lieu," or "what a beautiful place." The de Latours expanded through BV Ranch No. 1 (1903) and BV Ranch No. 2 (1907), planting phylloxera-resistant vines imported from Europe.

After Prohibition, Georges recruited André Tchelistcheff, a Russian-émigré winemaker who became one of the defining figures of modern California winemaking during his tenure at BV. Cabernet Sauvignon is the estate's central grape, led by the Georges de Latour Private Reserve bottling, alongside a wider Rutherford and Napa Valley Reserve program built around single clones (4, 6, 169) and estate ranches, red blends under the Madame de Latour and Maestro labels, and smaller-production Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Merlot, and Malbec bottlings.

Winemaker
Nate Weis, Senior Winemaker & General Manager

Facts read from bvwines.com

What's on file

1940

founded

as stated by the producer

Address

1960 SAINT HELENA HWY

Where it's registered

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The ground it sits on

Sub-AVA · Rutherford

6.4

pH, 1:1 water

20.6cm

, whole profile

168cm

to

Well drained

, dominant condition

Distribution across 37 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar

6.4
3.3%
24.2%
available water
20.6cm
depth to restriction
168cm

Dominant

  • 21.9%
  • 20.1%
  • 11.4%
  • 10.1%
  • 5.5%

37 map units · soil described over 98.5% of the region’s area · 3.2% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 24% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.

Wines

25 of 26 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.