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Proprietary Blend · North Coast
98+ points from Robert Parker.
“The big rich brawny 2002 Vecina Proprietary Red is a primordial tannic beast with a beef blood-like concentration a huge opaque purple color and notes of scorched earth blackberries chocolate camphor roasted meats and cassis. It's as if I took an aged porterhouse steak from Peter Lugar's famed restaurant put it in a Cuisinart and aged it in new French oak. Give this amazing wine 5-6 years of bottle age and drink it over the following 20-25 years. Vecina is a western hillside vineyard adjacent to Harlan Estate.”
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BOND: A portfolio of wines that are diverse in their geographic representation and 'Grand Cru' in quality, all under the umbrella of one philosophy, one team, one mark.
This is the brainchild of Harlan Estate’s Bill Harlan, who has signed the owners of these well-placed vineyards in selected micro-climates in Napa Valley to long (quarter of a century) contracts. In the first decade, he has expanded the number of vineyard holdings to five separate wines in 2011, all made by the Harlan Estate winemaking team of Bob Levy and consulting oenologist Michel Rolland. There were only three cuvees in 2001 – from an 11-acre site on the western Oakville hillsides near Harlan Estate, the Vecina, St. Eden, an 11-acre stony knoll north of the Oakville Crossroad with a northern exposure, and from the steep slopes just north of Lake Hennessy with an eastern and southeastern exposure, east of Rutherford, the Melbury.
Since these fabulous 2001s were made, two other great vineyards have been added to the Bond portfolio. These are Quella, which is a 9 acre vineyard in the eastern hills of northern Napa Valley, planted on white volcanic ash called Tufa, and Pluribus, which is a high elevation vineyard planted on steep slopes of Spring Mountain with a northern and easterly exposure. All three 2001s showed phenomenally, and are still very young wines, with at least 15 to 20 more years of upside potential. In fact, in a cold cellar these wines probably have 40 or more years of aging potential, but few of us will be able to wait that long to see how they taste.
One bottle, 750 ml, of the 2002 vintage.
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Bond (Harlan).
Yes. You must be 21 years of age or older to purchase.
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