2007 BOND Pluribus

Community Tasting Notes (21) Avg Score: 96.1 points

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  4/26/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Blind. Just goes to show you what air does to a wine......
  
  5 hour slow ox by James prior to tonight's event. Another 3 hours of slow ox during our event.
  
  Medium to dark garnet in the glass. Big whiff of alcohol to start and for most of the evening. High acid and a short finish early on. Seems VERY out of balance. Lots if burn, which I don't like. 93 at best early on?
  
  Funny thing is....as this gets more air it deepens, darkens and improves....a lot, and comes into balance. 97 by the end of the night but you need to give this one plenty of air. A good 5 hour full decant is probably best at this point in time, otherwise you have to give it an 8 hour slow ox. This might have been a 98 with more time in the glass, but we ran out!

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  10/22/2023 - DWStyle Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Drank 4 out of 5 bottles of a Bond 2007 retrospective box. All but the St. Eden. The pluribus was the WOTN! Had a nicely aged bouquet to it that none of the others had. Epic steak SF, with R&R and Justin of J&J! Great dinner! Epic Somelier was on spot, wines were enjoyed by all. At or in their prime, IMO.

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  9/9/2023 - Whisky&Wine Likes this wine: 97 Points

  This is even better than I remembered. The attack has softened since 2020 - this wine is now a total, well-integrated beauty with silky mouthfeel, spicy but suave mid palate with glorious fruit and a lingering finish rife with boysenberry, blackberry, juicy jaboticaba, and pine and eastern cedar notes. This is a great bottle to savor or enjoy with food. The piney notes set this bottle apart. Seek it out!!
  
  Cements pluribus as the best of the Bonds in my opinion- if you have the patience to cellar these for pten plus years, they reward you with awesome depth, complexity and flavor! This one has at least another decade of joy to give. Maybe twenty.

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  10/13/2020 - wineismylife wrote: 94 Points

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  Tasted non blind. Opened and served immediately. Followed over about three hours.
  
  Dark garnet to purple color in the glass, clear looking throughout. Nose of sandalwood, rose petals, maple and mixed dark fruits. Flavors of dark plums, currants, chocolate and cherries. Medium acidity, medium to firm tannin, full bodied. Drink now with some air or continue to hold.

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  6/20/2020 - gteran76 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Opened at 4pm, places in a decanter from 6-6:45pm and back to the bottle to consumed at dinner 8pm-10pm.
  
  I believe this wine didn’t fully opened, while the body is bold, and the mouth is coated with layers of minerals and purity it was a little flat on the middle. To me the edges were beautiful but lakes a bit complexity and secondary notes on the center.
  
  If I had another bottle (which sadly I don’t) I will keep it in the cellar for at least 5 years. The best days of this wine are still down the road...
  
  95+ HOLD.

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