Realm - The Bard Napa Valley 2021 (750ml)

 
JD
98
TWI
97
V
95
VM
95

Price: $170.00

Producer Realm
Country United States
Region California
Subregion Napa Valley
Varietal Bordeaux Blends
Vintage 2021
Sku 1703474
Size 750ml

Jeb Dunnuck: 98 Points

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.

The Wine Independent: 97 Points

A blend of 83% Cabernet Sauvignon 7% Merlot 6% Cabernet Franc 3% Petit Verdot and 1% Petite Sirah the fruit for the 2021 The Bard comes from sites across the valley including some estate fruit and some sourced fruit. Deep garnet-purple colored it shoots from the glass with vibrant notions of crushed black currants red currant jelly black raspberries and pencil shavings giving way to notes of lilacs dark chocolate and a waft of spearmint. The full-bodied palate is firm with ripe fine-grained tannins and a lively backbone framing the tightly wound red black and blue fruit flavors finishing with great length and a real skip in its step.

Vinous Media: 95 Points

The 2021 The Bard is fabulous. Rich, ample and beautifully resonant, the 2021 offers up generous dark red cherry/plum fruit, mocha, new leather, licorice, spice, menthol and pipe tobacco. Full-bodied and voluptuous, the 2021 flaunts tons of flavor intensity and vibrancy. It’s a gorgeous wine, especially consideri

Vinous: 95 Points

The 2021 The Bard is fabulous. Rich ample and beautifully resonant the 2021 offers up generous dark red cherry/plum fruit mocha new leather licorice spice menthol and pipe tobacco. Full-bodied and voluptuous the 2021 flaunts tons of flavor intensity and vibrancy. It?s a gorgeous wine especially considering it is the largest-production wine at Realm. - By Antonio Galloni on December 2023

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