2002 Clarendon Hills Merlot Brookman

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  6/1/2023 - WineGuyX wrote: 87 Points

  This is ok, but has seen better days. Red plums and black cherries, herbal shadings and a bit of stewed fruit. Drink up! 87

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  9/26/2014 - Derek Darth Taster wrote: 91 Points

  Tasted blind. Friday night drink with Davyd at my place.
  Appearance is clear, deep intensity, garnet colour. Legs.
  Nose is clean, pronounced intensity, with aromas of ripe blackcurrant berries and roasted coffee-beans. Developed.
  On the palate, dry, medium acidity, medium+ alcohol, plush velvety medium tannins, full body. Medium+ flavour intensity, with flavours of blackcurrant, blueberries, and roasted coffee-beans. Slight herbs with more air. Medium+ finish.
  Good quality. Drinking well now at its peak. Drink up within next 2-3 years.

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  7/6/2014 - Davyd Chong Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Popped this at Bruno's to celebrate a friend's birthday. Surprisingly good! Lovely, sweet, leafy herbaceous nose, French oak, earth, and on the palate, earthy, sweet, luscious, dense, chewy tannins, complex, lots of herbs, some tertiary notes, a hint of lychee, cola and mocha. Long finish. Almost tastes like a French wine! Delicious. At its peak.

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  4/24/2012 - JGinMO wrote: 87 Points

  Still interesting but I felt well past it's prime

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  1/25/2006 - TashNYC wrote: 90 Points

  We had these 2 bottles at Christmas Eve in Chicago, w/ my family. We purchased them, on close-out, for a mere $12/each! (retail $48), at the old Marshall Fields, Chicago (being acquired by Macy's and the wine department was being shut down). The wine was excellent, albeit closed, needing 1-2 more years to show well. From memory, there were blueberry notes, oak and coffee. The wine was closed, so we decanted. Sadly, the wine didn't get the warm reception it deserved: maybe it was the plastic cups ... although Jen & I managed to find real glasses for it! Anyway, there were no takers to go back and buy the other 9 bottles for $12/each: I was very sad we were flying to DC the next AM, and couldn't get them ourselves.

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