2004 Bond "Melbury" Napa Valley Bordeaux Blend
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Wine Spectator
Reviewed November 2007Fresh black cherry, currant and plum aromas are pure and riveting. Firm, rich and polished, with hints of nutmeg, rose petal and wild berry that are deep and complex. Intense, focused and concentrated, this is beautifully balanced, deep and persistent, with ripe, integrated tannins. (JL)
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Wine Advocate
The 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Melbury comes from Pritchard Hill and is aged 22 months in 100% new French oak. (About 600-700 cases of each of these wines are produced.) The 2004 Melbury is showing even better than it was early on. It is very open-knit for a Bond wine at age ten and that’s a good thing, since we all want to drink these wines in our lifetime. This comes across as a Napa version of the famed Pauillac Pontet-Canet, with terrific licorice, cedarwood, blackberry, creme de cassis, toast, spice box and lead pencil notes in the aromatics and flavors of this drinkable, full-bodied, opulent wine that is strutting its stuff splendidly. It should drink well for another 15 or more years given its sensational richness and overall equilibrium. (RP)
94
Wine Enthusiast
A dark, rich wine, this opens with ripe, sweet aromas of fresh blackberries, cedar, cigar box, pencil lead and cinnamon. Brings to mind a classified Pauillac, rather hard and tannic now, but sweetly ripe and refined, and very rich in mulberries, cherries, licorice and mocha. A magnificent young wine. *Cellar Selection*
93
Vinous
Full red-ruby. Sexy, inviting scents of plum, redcurrant, mocha, tobacco and dried flowers. Plush and sweet in the mouth, showing almost a truffley ripeness and the liqueur-like warmth of a sunny vintage. Can't match the 2005 for energy or floral lift but this wine is quite powerful and gripping on the back end, with its tannins still in need of some softening. (ST)
Details
| Type | Red Wine |
|---|---|
| Varietal | Cabernet Sauvignon and Blends |
| Origin | Napa Valley, California, United States |
| Bottle Size | 750 mL |
| Alcohol Content | 14.5% |
| SKU | 1054086 |
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