2010 BOND Melbury

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 96.1 points

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  12/18/2021 - GiWineDoc Likes this wine: 97 Points

  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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  5/2/2020 - nywine68 wrote: 94 Points

  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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  11/23/2019 - rylanreynolds wrote: 99 Points

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

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  1/17/2017 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  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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  1/16/2017 - Jeremy Holmes wrote:

  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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