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2015

Realm Cellars The Bard

Tasted 28 August 2020 California · Napa Valley

I've followed and reviewed this wine quite a bit over the course of the last few years and it has certainly delivered a consistently lushly dark and hedonistically round profile. For those who know Bard, this should be…

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2019

Realm Cellars The Absurd

California · Napa Valley

In a blind amongst some stellar performers (Kinsman, Macdonald, Scarecrow, Colgin), the 2019 Absurd showed as lighter bodied (I mean, for a Realm) and redder fruited than I would have anticipated. It…

Reviewed 24 July 2024
2016

Realm Cellars The Falstaff

Napa Valley · Rutherford

Wild berry jubilee, cassis, cinnamon, and vanilla Schnapps dominate the profile here. In my previous note a couple of years ago, I characterized the initial experience of this wine as having "a…

Reviewed 4 May 2022
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