Wine Spectator
A rich, dense, harmonious Cabernet, with plush cassis, currant, blackberry and wild berry fruit that picks up a hint of plum and blueberry. The flavors explode on the finish, offering hints of anise and black cherry fruit that turn supple and elegant.
Wine Spectator
The inky/purple-tinged 2002 St. Eden Proprietary Red reveals notes of unlit cigar tobacco, beautiful blueberry and creme de cassis fruit, and notions of licorice, spice box, and incense. It is full-bodied, with wonderful sweetness and plumpness as well as a meaty richness that cascades over the palate with a seamlessness that must be tasted to be believed.
Robert Parker, The Wine Advocate
A gorgeous combination of blackberries, flowers, blueberries, and cassis, with less earth and meaty characteristics is apparent in the 2002 St. Eden. With a dense purple color, terrific texture, and wonderful sweetness, this fruit-driven, plump, seductive cuvee will also be drinkable young and keep for two decades.
Stephen Tanzer's IWC
Saturated ruby. Superripe aromas of blackberry, cassis, licorice, tobacco and mint. Superconcentrated and creamy-sweet; like an essence of berries complicated by tar, tobacco and licorice. Today this offers the most confectionery sweetness of the Bond 2002 cuvees Uncommonly thick, sweet, liqueur-like cabernet, finishing with lush, seamless tannins.
Stephen Tanzer's IWC
Good medium ruby. Aromas of blueberry and blackberry liqueur, with a note of coffee; just this side of roasted. Extremely dense and sweet, combining great sucrosity with very firm but fine tannins. Superripe but balanced at an absurdly high level of richness. Complicating notes of redcurrant, tobacco, menthol, stone and leather. Finishes very long. Still a bit youthfully subdued, but extremely long on the aftertaste.
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