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Monday, December 6, 2021 - A wine of such seamless purity and balance that it just takes your breath away, the 2015 St Eden is surely one of the greatest successes of the vintage. Deeply colored, with a nose showing cassis sorbet, toffee candies, bare hints of lavender and mint, and perhaps just a touch of creosote. After a few hours, I revisited and found an unmistakable aroma of freshly baked brioche with black cherry compote. The sculptured midpalate has always distinguished the greatest Bond wines from almost anything in Napa, and this wine is best appreciated from that perspective: a nearly spherical story of balance, with a richness of fruit, ripe yet not overtly sweet, framing acidity and tannin…. but the acidity is gentle and the tannins are velvety, and underneath you find a mineral backbone that lingers and lifts the finish out for minutes. Just exceptional! This will hit 100 someday.

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