Tasting Notes

• • RATING

    98 Jeb Dunnuck

  • TASTING DATE

    12/26/2023

  • MATURITY

    2025 - 2040

  • REVIEWED BY

    Jeb Dunnuck

  • SOURCE

    Napa Valley’s 2021s and 2022s – Part 1

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  Lastly, the 2021 The Bard checks in as 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, and the rest Petit Verdot and Petite Sirah. This beauty has a killer bouquet of cassis, spring flowers, graphite, chalky minerality, and violets. This carries to a full-bodied, seamless, silky, flawlessly balanced effort revealing fine tannins, a good sense of freshness, and a thrilling finish.