2021 The Bard

Name: 2021 The Bard
Brand: Realm Cellars
SKU: 15289
Price: 169.9 EUR
Availability: LimitedAvailability

Realm Cellars

Weinart: Rotwein

Rebsorte: 83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 6% Cabernet Franc, 3% Petit Verdot, 1% Petit Sirah

Land: USA / Kalifornien

Region: Napa Valley

Stilistik: vielschichtig, tanninreich, frisch, aromatisch

Ausbau: Barrique/ Holzfass

Geschmacksrichtung: trocken

Alkoholgehalt: 14,6% Vol.

Trinktemperatur: 15-18°C

Suckling 97 /100

Vinous 95 /100

Dunnuck 98 /100

Perrotti-Brown 97 /100

Allergene: Sulfite, Abfüllerinformation

169,90 €*

Inhalt: 0.75 Liter (226,53 €* / 1 Liter)

Preise inkl. MwSt. zzgl. Versandkosten

Sofort verfügbar, Lieferzeit 2-4 Tage (Ins Ausland abweichende Lieferzeiten)

Produktnummer: 15289

Michael Grimm

Technical Sheet

Decanter: 97 Punkte

After sampling 86 wines over a two-day marathon tasting with Realm Cellars co-owners Scott Becker and winemaker Benoit Touquette, I had no doubt that one would make my top 10 list of the year. It would be The Bard, which will be available beginning in 2024. It is a very giving wine that promises great rewards for long-term cellaring and is enjoyable three full nights in a row, never losing its zeal if having one great glass each night is your prerogative. Power and muscle frame the core of this towering red, with its red-toned fruits and rich, toasty oak spices nuanced by bay Laurel and pastis. Full-bodied with tremendous decadence of chocolaty tannins that are pliant and billowy, lifted by supple blackberry and black raspberry fruit, a drizzle of cherry coulis, and resolving with refined tobacco, cedar wood spices, and laced with coriander and cumin aromatics. It has a satisfyingly rich finish. Number five of my top 10 wines of 2023.

- Jonathan Cristaldi (12/2023)

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.

- Antonio Galloni (12/2023)

James Suckling

97 POINTS

The purity of fruit here is impressive with blackcurrants, bark and black mushrooms. Full-bodied but light-footed and fresh with integrated tannins that melt into the wine. Real transparency and focus. 83% cabernet sauvignon, 7% merlot, 6% cabernet franc, 3% petit verdot and 1% petite sirah. So drinkable but can age as well. (12/2023)

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. (12/2023)

Lisa Perrotti-Brown

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. (09/2023)

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