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Thu, Jan 23, 2025 03:00PM EST - Fri, Jan 24, 2025 03:00PM EST
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Lot 140
2004 Harlan Estate Napa Valley Red - 1 bottle(s)-1500ml
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This lot is comprised of 1 bottle(s) of 2004 Harlan Estate Napa Valley Red - 1500ml. Estimate for this lot is between $1600 - $2400 with a Buy it Now of $2000. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11257.
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A blue chip collection filled with top California cult and fine Burgundy. The collector began amassing Old World wines when living in Montreal and Toronto and expanded his appreciation for California wine when living in San Francisco. Starting his cellar in the late 1990's, the majority of the wines were purchased directly from the winery or estate and were stored in a temperature and humidity-controlled private cellar.
The score for 2004 Harlan Estate Napa Valley Red is 98 points from Robert Parker and the tasting note - Another rating identical to that which was given in 2007 (when first tasted from bottle), the 2004 Harlan Estate is performing essentially the way I suggested in 2007 as it is one of the more precocious and accessible of the Harlan Estate wines to date. A great showing at this retrospective, this wine, which seems like a hypothetical blend of a Pauillac, St.-Estephe and Graves, represents around 1,500 cases from 40 acres of beautifully manicured hillside vineyards overlooking Oakville. Still dense purple to the rim, with notes of creme de cassis, charcoal, blackberry and sweet toast, the wine is full-bodied and voluptuously textured with the tannins largely resolved. But the density and richness suggest this wine can go a long, long way, even though the window for drinking it seems open and inviting already. A world-class, first-growth wine if there ever was one from Napa, this is simply an exquisite Harlan Estate that has atypically reached mid to late adolescence at the age of ten. That is great given the fact that these are 30- to 40-year wines – possibly even half-century wines.