2004 Harlan Estate

Community Tasting Notes (109) Avg Score: 95.9 points

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  3/31/2024 - Chris Davis LCF Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Although enjoyable, it did not live up to expectations. Decanted and sampled over 2 hrs before dinner. What little fruit remains faded somewhat over the 2 hrs, so if I had another I would decant off sediment and serve immediately. Nose was stewed plums, prunes, cedar, typical aged bordeaux. Nice tastes of baked fig, dried cherry, leather, menthol, but too much 2nd and 3rd, not enough fruit remains. Medium weight. Surprisingly short, alcohol-burn finish. Drink up - it won't get better IMO.

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  1/1/2024 - dbg wrote:

  Excellent-outstanding.

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  11/13/2023 - Jzboxtas Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Wonderful. Tertiary but still delicious. Drank over 2 days, better on second.

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  9/16/2023 - tor@livenation.se Likes this wine: 95 Points

  In 2018 this vintage was one of the greatest wines I/we ever have had. It was open mature and powerful. Now it has reached an older phace and reminds me of an older good left bank Bordeaux. Interesting!

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  3/5/2023 - hrazdiiv Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Reading the reviews below, there are clearly two schools here: superb and underwhelming, and I am in the latter camp. Not my first bottle but the first one where I highly questioned the value. The wine is a medium-dark inky purple/blue, age appropriate. The first whiff of the nose after a 45 minute decant was an off kilter stewed fruit element that seemed misplaced and indicative of heat damage. Not sure why this might have been since I bought this direct and stored perfectly. Beneath this stewed nose, there was some nice complexity to the wine with forest floor, dark fruits and espresso all making an appearance and creating a richly textured finish. Extremely high amounts of sediment, also a bit unusual. Knowing the producer, I’ll assume bottle was somehow mishandled, but I still can’t rate it any higher.

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