2017 Realm Cellars The Bard

Community Tasting Notes (94) Avg Score: 93.5 points

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  5/22/2024 - sonodoc Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Had as a pop and pour. Some black and blue fruits, but somewhat muted, with leather and oak seeming more predominant. Smooth, tasty but not exciting. A moderate amount of sediment, so pour slowly and carefully near the end. For me, I guess it’s time to drink up the rest of them.

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  5/4/2024 - wendyinwlv wrote: 95 Points

  Consistent with the last bottle we had, thank goodness!!

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  4/5/2024 - travelme Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This was an amazing bottle. Thinking there could be some bottle variation here because this bottle was marvelous.

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  2/7/2024 - e-r.portzline wrote: 85 Points

  Opened and poured over three plus hours. Upon open, there were dark fruits on the nose and at first taste. The mid was flat, with a non-existent finish. After three hours, the tanins are really well integrated, but this wine is really flat. There is just a hint of fruits on the start and then nothing but warm tasteless alcohol. It may just be in a dormant period, so I’ll look to open others between now and ‘33. Falling from the Realm realm, but hoping what I have is worth keeping.

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  1/25/2024 - Tim Heaton wrote:

  PnP tasted non-blind over two hours. A chocolate Hostess cake is ready to go once opened, so is processed chocolate pudding, and so was this Bard. This is a big pool of chocolatey, over-ripe black and blue fruit, with a thick coat of vanilla, some carob, and molten Nestle's morsels - for good measure, I assume. Not having had tried this vintage before, I gave it a go; I'm always willing to see what's new, what may have changed. After four sips over forty minutes, I rinsed my (half-full) glass and moved on to the next wine in the lineup. No doubt this is a great cocktail, to some, but I can't think that this was meant to go with food (no doubt I'll get a lot of "with steak" comments), or at least not the type of food I prefer. And since I never have wine without food, The Bard and I aren't likely to cross paths again anytime soon. I reckon some twenty five+ years ago, in a social setting of some sort, I'd have actually finished that first glass, perhaps to fit in. Or for a quick sugar fix. So fast forward, and it's clear that's no longer a worry. I don't. Fit in. With the Realm crew, at least. If this is your jam, then this is another great vintage of the Bard, enjoy.
  
  fwiw, the chocolate can be found under all the vanilla

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