Wine Doctrine
2018

BOND Melbury

Tasted 9 June 2022 California · Napa Valley

Unripe red raspberry, sour red cherry, green peppercorn, and plum skin notes present as painfully young, holding the fruit back a thousand yards from expansion. With vigorous swirling in the glass, the plum note becomes…

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2005

BOND Vecina

California · Napa Valley

This was tight and tannic, with a stern entry of crunchy berry, rock, and cedar notes. I kept coming back to this wine as it tried to relax its grip, but it wasn't giving up much of the goods. What…

Reviewed 29 July 2025
2002

BOND St. Eden

California · Napa Valley

Soft earth-laced berries, red and black currant, plum, a slight kiss of mushroom, and leather notes make for a classical showing from a nicely aged wine. It's drinking time here, and seemingly at the…

Reviewed 29 July 2025
2021

BOND Vecina

California · Napa Valley

Linear and strict, with an old school vibe that represents as one of the more rustic versions of VHR. This is not atypical of Bond of course, as consumers of this producer, and in particular the…

Reviewed 30 April 2025
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