Wine Spectator Score: 96

Robert Parker Score: 100

Tanzer Score: 94

State: California

Region: Napa Valley

Type: Still Wine

Color: Red

Varietal: Blends & Meritage

Vintage: 2001

Size: 750ML

Available: 9

Brand: See more from Bond Estates Winery

Sku: 138750

Price: $379.99

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Wine Spectator Review:
Shares the weight, density and concentration (along with the tannin mass) of the other Bond Cabs, yet delivers a wider range of flavor and a touch more finesse, unfolding to reveal a core of dark berry, pencil lead, graphite, mocha and touches of loamy earth and mineral. Great structure great future.

Parker Review:
Utterly perfect, another wine that seems to have taken on a first-growth Pauillac-like character (think Mouton-Rothschild) is the 2001 St. Eden. With a remarkably perfumed nose of crushed rocks, subtle barbecue smoke, and again, cedar wood intermixed with creme de cassis and blackberry, this wine displays a phenomenally concentrated mouthfeel, full-bodied opulence, voluptuous texture, and of this trio, is certainly the closest to its apogee of full maturity. Nevertheless, it will still benefit from another 5-10 years of cellaring and keep for an additional 25-30.

Tanzer Review:
Full medium ruby. Currant and chocolate liqueur aromas. Superripe and almost painfully concentrated, but more serious and less confectionery today than the young 2002 sample. Slightly medicinal flavor of chocolate liqueur. This may be starting to shut down in bottle, but its uncanny concentration, noble tannins and great persistence suggest it will develop in bottle for at least 15 years.