1999 Harlan Estate The Maiden

Community Tasting Notes (49) Avg Score: 92.9 points

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  2/17/2024 - edjBoca Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Drank super after 60-90 minutes.....from memory

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  11/9/2020 - dkentaustin Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Red currant, lead pencil, sweet oiled leather and deeply ripe black fruit on the nose. Dark, bold, velvety wine with subdued tannins and layers of fruit with a hint of vanilla & oak. Drank straight from the bottle without decanting - incredible wine that likely could go for a number of years. Really impressive wine at this time - anything under the Harlan umbrella should be sought out. Quite impressive with a Hawaiian NY strip.

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  12/31/2019 - Labrador Likes this wine: 99 Points

  It's Friday, January 3, and I can still taste this wine. I have thought about this wine for the last 3 days ... and probably will for the rest of time. I have no option but to raise its score.
  
  To put it simply, this was the most exquisite wine that we drank in 2019 and we have been lucky enough to have had some great wines.
  It was bold, expressive, multi-layered, beautifully balanced. explosive in the mouth and with a finish that went on and on past the turning of the decade. The fruit was dark with just a hint of sweetness, and its taste was the richest I have had in a long, long time. It was darn never perfection.

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  10/20/2018 - mflesh wrote: 92 Points

  This wine was kind of in a weird place, and I'm not sure if we just didn't give this one enough time to come around or maybe a little bit of bottle variation. The 07 I enjoyed a little over a year ago seemed to be a lot more fruit forward and dense, whereas this one definitely did seem to have a medium-to-full bodied black fruit density to it. It also seemed a bit vegetal. A bit of green pepper in the middle of this wine. The finish almost seemed to have a dried pipe tobacco note. Not exactly what I expected given the fruit density of the 07, but this one IS 8 vintages ahead. Judging the wine, I give this one still a very solid 92, and wondering if this one just didn't need a few hours of air to work some of its problems out.

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  8/8/2018 - JJB007 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  we decanted for two hours then had to wait another 2
  
  soft yet a hint of bitter

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