2002 Sloan

Community Tasting Notes (37) Avg Score: 95.5 points

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  2/12/2024 - lbin2008 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Double decant approximately 2 hours before serving. Full body, deep, rich fruit notes. Just as good as the 2024 NYE bottle.

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  2/17/2023 - Quiet Lion Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Decanted briefly. Nicely integrated red fruit, bright acid, and fine tannins with the thick body Sloan is known for. Delicious although I tend to prefer this style of wine younger. Plenty of life left though.

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  12/11/2022 - soyhead wrote:

  tasted blind
  nose -grapeskin
  mouth - bitter fruits, with intensity, sappy and concentrated but in the end the bitterness started to bother me. surprised to see this being the 02 sloan. didnt remind me at all of the bottle from last year.

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  10/3/2021 - soyhead wrote:

  generously brought and shared by the patriarch. Tasted blind
  One whiff and I though 'Harlan'. Nose of grapeskin, dark fruited licorice, slightly grappesque.
  In the mouth - a torrefaction of deep dark fruit, an in-your-face explosion, in a word - A beast. Porty, and surmature to my palate, perhaps even prune-y. I found it advanced and I wonder if this might not have been the best stored bottle. Alexander the great predicted it would be oxidized in a year or two. But the patriarch considered it on the young side compared to bottles he had previously had. Meanwhile DC shook his head disgustedly finding it 'overripe, overconcentrated, overextracted, overfermented'. Basically over-everything. Needless to say it was a bit polarizing. In the end I would summarize it as being a veritable fruit bomb but not one that led to me keep coming back for the next sip. Which is saying something. I think this deserves a re-do

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  5/27/2021 - Dako Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The color is the deepest, darkest purple in memory, let alone for a 19 year-old wine. About as dense on the palate with super-ripe blackberry and uber soft tannins. Quite the masterpiece for what it is.

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