Community Tasting Notes 8

• GiWineDoc Likes this wine: 97 points

  December 18, 2021 - Decanted 1 hr. Open from the get. Dark, brooding fruit. Inky purple color with a smooth, silky texture. What a wine.

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• nywine68 wrote: 94 points

  May 2, 2020 - Deep dark purple color. A big wine. A bit of alcohol initially but it blew off quickly. Lots of earth, tobacco and licorice, with beautiful complexity. Blueberries and eucalyptus. Balancing the big fruit is a good dose of acidity and tannins in the background. This will easily go another 20 years and it will be fascinating to see how it develops.

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• rylanreynolds wrote: 99 points

  November 23, 2019 - This wine is phenomenal. Red fruits, balanced, integrated silky tannins. I need another bottle of this one!

• MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  January 17, 2017 - Winter in Wineland; 1/14/2017-1/20/2017 (Sonoma & Napa): Drank this at the winery and the tasting was very much focused on more geographical tasting than flavors. This wine was described as gravity which I understand as for me the flavors really lit up along my jawbone. The tannins are softer here, but certainly still present. I get lots of red fruit - currant, darker cherry... with time maybe cranberry and just a touch of the sourness that goes with that. In the beginning it was more peppery but that seemed to evole to more of a baking spice. Nice wine. Not as approachable as I remember other Melbury's being, but very enjoyable.

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• Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  January 16, 2017 - The nose is expressive with notes of baking spice, smoke, cassis and cedar. It is sweet and round in the mouth with some refreshing red fruit notes and a little sour cherry. There’s sweet tobacco and it has tannins that are spherical but there is some chew to the finish.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2010
• Type Red
• Producer BOND
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Melbury
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 7 (1%)
• In Cellars 646 (71%)
• Consumed 258 (28%)

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