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• travelme Likes this wine: 95 points

  April 5, 2024 - This was an amazing bottle. Thinking there could be some bottle variation here because this bottle was marvelous.

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• e-r.portzline wrote: 85 points

  February 7, 2024 - Opened and poured over three plus hours. Upon open, there were dark fruits on the nose and at first taste. The mid was flat, with a non-existent finish. After three hours, the tanins are really well integrated, but this wine is really flat. There is just a hint of fruits on the start and then nothing but warm tasteless alcohol. It may just be in a dormant period, so I’ll look to open others between now and ‘33. Falling from the Realm realm, but hoping what I have is worth keeping.

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• Tim Heaton wrote:

  January 25, 2024 - PnP tasted non-blind over two hours. A chocolate Hostess cake is ready to go once opened, so is processed chocolate pudding, and so was this Bard. This is a big pool of chocolatey, over-ripe black and blue fruit, with a thick coat of vanilla, some carob, and molten Nestle's morsels - for good measure, I assume. Not having had tried this vintage before, I gave it a go; I'm always willing to see what's new, what may have changed. After four sips over forty minutes, I rinsed my (half-full) glass and moved on to the next wine in the lineup. No doubt this is a great cocktail, to some, but I can't think that this was meant to go with food (no doubt I'll get a lot of "with steak" comments), or at least not the type of food I prefer. And since I never have wine without food, The Bard and I aren't likely to cross paths again anytime soon. I reckon some twenty five+ years ago, in a social setting of some sort, I'd have actually finished that first glass, perhaps to fit in. Or for a quick sugar fix. So fast forward, and it's clear that's no longer a worry. I don't. Fit in. With the Realm crew, at least. If this is your jam, then this is another great vintage of the Bard, enjoy.
  
  fwiw, the chocolate can be found under all the vanilla

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• FourKidsPlus1Dog wrote: 95 points

  January 12, 2024 - Awesome

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• Tonythefish Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 10, 2024 - See prior notes. Been almost 2.5 years since last bottle. This one had nice fruit at the onset but then after open about 30 minutes got a little raisin toast to it. Ill see how next bottle is before I say drink now so stay tuned

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2017
• Type Red
• Producer Realm Cellars
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation The Bard
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 2200001052741

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• Pending Delivery 30 (0%)
• In Cellars 4,719 (69%)
• Consumed 2,061 (30%)

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