2015 BOND St. Eden

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 96 points

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  2/16/2024 - LBDWine wrote:

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  10/24/2023 - Lord of the Bottles Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Graphite nose. Touch of alcoholic heat on the palate, which is mostly red fruit and cracked black pepper. Nice wine but looking at some other scores in the high 90s maybe I’m missing something. 93/100

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  7/24/2022 - Hppr Cellar Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Decanted for two hours. Paired with wagyu steak. Fantastic. Drinking very well right now.

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  12/6/2021 - KPB Likes this wine: 99 Points

  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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  4/28/2017 - KPB wrote: 99 Points

  I don't think I've ever had a better barrel sample, but this wine won't be bottled for a while, so the score is really for the particular barrel. The St. Eden seems to float, an otherworldly wine with the most remarkable texture and aromatics I can remember for any Napa red I've sampled at an early age. The wine is medium bodied, with a lovely nose of cassis and ripe blackberries, leather, iron, toffee, perhaps the merest hint of forest loam. In the mouth perfect balance: the fruit is just ripe enough, but has the acidity to give it structure and shape, the tannins are soft and polished, and then that surreal minerality simply takes this to a new level. Probably should rate it 100pts even now.

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