2001 BOND Matriarch
Community Tasting Note
JDB's Cellar Likes this wine:
Sunday, January 31, 2021 - The wine looks garnet colored. The legs are slow. It smells like plum, blackberry and red currant. It tastes like blackberry, plum, black pepper and sandalwood.
The nose has a very strong plum aroma - very enjoyable to swirl it and stick your nose down in the glass.
I'm surprised at the number of different flavors I'm getting while sipping and sucking air across my tongue. What surprised me the most is the woody flavors, especially sandalwood. The tree and berry fruit aromas also follow through in the taste. There is definitely some mineral notes to the flavor, making this not a typical "in your face" California style wine that's all fruit and alcohol.
This wine is still drinking very nicely. If 2015 was the called peak, it is on a very gentle slope down.
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