Our Provenance Guarantee
Purchase with confidence. All of our wines are selectively sourced and thoroughly inspected for authenticity and signs of poor storage. Accepted bottles are preserved in our climate-controlled cellar until they reach your doorstep. We have no storefront and no walk-in traffic, so nothing is moved or handled between inspection and shipping.
The bottle you see photographed is the bottle you receive (or fundamentally identical when multiple bottles are listed), and our commitment to you is that it arrives as represented. If it doesn’t, we want to hear from you.
Ratings & Tasting Notes:
96 points James Suckling
This is very refined with ultra-fine tannins that run the length of the wine, with a medium body and impressive length, not lacking anything. Purity and focus. Drinkable now with delight, but will age beautifully.
Cult Wines International Notes:
A “Second Wine” with a Top-Tier Pedigree: Matriarch is often referred to as a “second wine” of Harlan Estate’s Bond Winery. This means that instead of being a single-vineyard bottling like Bond’s other five core wines (Vecina, Pluribus, Melbury, St. Eden, and Quella), Matriarch is a blend. It’s composed of grapes and lots from those five “grand cru” caliber vineyards that didn’t make the cut for the final single-vineyard wines. This rigorous selection process ensures that even the “leftover” components are of exceptional quality, making Matriarch a top-tier wine in its own right.
Bottle Size:
750 mL
Storage History:
Always stored on its side in a climate-controlled cellar.
Condition:
Perfect.
