Harlan 1991 Harlan Estate

Classification	Cru Classe
Type	Red
Brand	Harlan Estate
Vintage	1991
Country	United States
Region	Napa Valley
Grape	Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Bordeaux Blend
Volume	0,75
Condition	Perfect
Label	Slightly damaged
Drinkable	-2025
Stock	0

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (98)

This is a profoundly great wine. It came across in a blind tasting as one of the most remarkable wines there, with most tasters mistaking it for a first-growth Medoc. The wine revealed an opaque purple color, a fabulously complex, sweet nose of minerals, fruitcake, cedar, toasty new oak, and pure blackcurrant fruit. Although huge in the mouth, the wine is remarkably well-balanced, with its high tannin level well-concealed by copious quantities of sweet ripe fruit, as well as huge amounts of glycerin and extract. I have consistently rated the 1991 Harlan Estate in the mid to upper nineties, but in this blind tasting with so many high quality wines, it was a big-time winner. Approachable now, this wine should be at its best by the turn of the century and last for 2-3 decades.

Winespectator (88)

Less evolved, trim and tight, with graphite and dried berry notes and firm tannins. At points closed, but also drying in fruit flavor.

BOW (8.25)