Harlan Estate Cabernet Sauvignon wine Napa Valley California sold by Angry Wine Merchant 2013 Harlan Estate - Angry Wine Merchant 2013 Harlan Estate - Angry Wine Merchant
Harlan Estate Cabernet Sauvignon wine Napa Valley California sold by Angry Wine Merchant
2013 Harlan Estate - Angry Wine Merchant
2013 Harlan Estate - Angry Wine Merchant

2002 Harlan Estate

Red Bordeaux Blend

America / California / Napa Valley  / Oakville

¥706,400
RP 100
V 98
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2002 Harlan Estate – Napa Valley’s Cult Cabernet Benchmark

The 2002 Harlan Estate is a towering achievement from one of Napa Valley’s most iconic cult wineries. Located in Oakville, Harlan Estate is celebrated for producing Bordeaux-style blends of remarkable depth, balance, and longevity. The 2002 vintage stands as one of the most legendary wines from the estate, reflecting both richness and precision.

Tasting Notes

Expressive aromas of blackberry, cassis, and violets mingle with notes of graphite, cedar, and mocha. The palate is full-bodied and expansive, delivering layers of black plum, espresso, and dark chocolate. Powerful yet polished tannins carry the wine into a seamless, everlasting finish.

Winemaking & Vineyard Details

Crafted as a Bordeaux-style blend dominated by **Cabernet Sauvignon** with portions of **Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot**, the 2002 Harlan was aged in **100% new French oak barrels** for nearly two years. The estate’s hillside vineyards, planted in volcanic and sedimentary soils, contribute to its intensity, while meticulous vineyard management ensures the highest quality fruit.

Investment & Collectibility

The 2002 Harlan Estate is a benchmark Napa Valley vintage, widely considered among the greatest wines produced in California. With its perfect critical acclaim and rarity, it remains one of the most desirable investment wines from the region. Perfect for your collection.

Vintage Specifics & Accolades

The **2002 vintage** in Napa Valley delivered powerful, age-worthy wines of exceptional concentration and purity. Harlan Estate’s release stands as one of the crowning achievements of the year.

  • 100 points – Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  • 99 points – Vinous
  • 98 points – Wine Spectator

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RP 100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The extraordinary Harlan Estate, which I awarded 100 points seven years ago, offers no justifiable reason to doubt its perfect score. It is still a baby, with an inky purple color and notes of smoky camphor intermixed with creme de cassis, Asian soy and a hint of cedar beginning to emerge as well as some espresso and subtle damp forest floor notes. The wine has awesome intensity, a full-bodied mouthfeel, a skyscraper-like texture, and a finish that goes on for close to a minute. This is a perfect wine, still youthful and young, and not even in full adolescence as of 2012. It has 40 or more years ahead of it, but should hit its plateau of full maturity in another 5-10 years. It is certainly one of the most showy , flamboyant and remarkable Harlan Estates made to date. (More recently, the 2007 tends to resemble this wine more than any other vintage I can think of.) Kudos to Bill Harlan! Reviewed by Robert M. Parker, Jr. Issue date: June 2012. Drinking window: N/A.
V 98

Vinous

(Rating 98+) Deep medium ruby. Knockout nose combines black raspberry, blackberry, candied violet, licorice pastille, black pepper and a suggestion of dusty earth. Like a liquid confection in the mouth: thick and sweet yet almost magically shapely and fresh. The longest, most inexorably palate-staining wine of my tour of the North Coast in early March: this lost no strength in my mouth after I had spit it. Damn near close to perfect wine; only my own refusal to give a perfect score to a wine that's still a decade or more short of its peak kept my score down. Bill Harlan, incidentally, compares the 2002 vintage to the 1995, which is showing spectacularly today (l was able to retaste the extraordinary 2001, which is perhaps even more classic than the 2002 if not quite as extravagantly thick, with slightly more roasted yet sappy aromas and flavors of crystallized berries, minerals, tar and licorice, and great inner-mouth energy and persistence. This very backward wine has the acid/tannin spine to evolve in bottle for 15 to 20 years. On my latest tasting I rated it 96(+?) Reviewed by Stephen Tanzer. Issue date: May 2005. Drinking window: N/A.

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  • CRITICAL REVIEWS
  • WINEMAKER NOTES
RP 100

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The extraordinary Harlan Estate, which I awarded 100 points seven years ago, offers no justifiable reason to doubt its perfect score. It is still a baby, with an inky purple color and notes of smoky camphor intermixed with creme de cassis, Asian soy and a hint of cedar beginning to emerge as well as some espresso and subtle damp forest floor notes. The wine has awesome intensity, a full-bodied mouthfeel, a skyscraper-like texture, and a finish that goes on for close to a minute. This is a perfect wine, still youthful and young, and not even in full adolescence as of 2012. It has 40 or more years ahead of it, but should hit its plateau of full maturity in another 5-10 years. It is certainly one of the most showy , flamboyant and remarkable Harlan Estates made to date. (More recently, the 2007 tends to resemble this wine more than any other vintage I can think of.) Kudos to Bill Harlan! Reviewed by Robert M. Parker, Jr. Issue date: June 2012. Drinking window: N/A.
V 98

Vinous

(Rating 98+) Deep medium ruby. Knockout nose combines black raspberry, blackberry, candied violet, licorice pastille, black pepper and a suggestion of dusty earth. Like a liquid confection in the mouth: thick and sweet yet almost magically shapely and fresh. The longest, most inexorably palate-staining wine of my tour of the North Coast in early March: this lost no strength in my mouth after I had spit it. Damn near close to perfect wine; only my own refusal to give a perfect score to a wine that's still a decade or more short of its peak kept my score down. Bill Harlan, incidentally, compares the 2002 vintage to the 1995, which is showing spectacularly today (l was able to retaste the extraordinary 2001, which is perhaps even more classic than the 2002 if not quite as extravagantly thick, with slightly more roasted yet sappy aromas and flavors of crystallized berries, minerals, tar and licorice, and great inner-mouth energy and persistence. This very backward wine has the acid/tannin spine to evolve in bottle for 15 to 20 years. On my latest tasting I rated it 96(+?) Reviewed by Stephen Tanzer. Issue date: May 2005. Drinking window: N/A.

2002 Harlan Estate – Napa Valley’s Cult Cabernet Benchmark

The 2002 Harlan Estate is a towering achievement from one of Napa Valley’s most iconic cult wineries. Located in Oakville, Harlan Estate is celebrated for producing Bordeaux-style blends of remarkable depth, balance, and longevity. The 2002 vintage stands as one of the most legendary wines from the estate, reflecting both richness and precision.

Tasting Notes

Expressive aromas of blackberry, cassis, and violets mingle with notes of graphite, cedar, and mocha. The palate is full-bodied and expansive, delivering layers of black plum, espresso, and dark chocolate. Powerful yet polished tannins carry the wine into a seamless, everlasting finish.

Winemaking & Vineyard Details

Crafted as a Bordeaux-style blend dominated by **Cabernet Sauvignon** with portions of **Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Petit Verdot**, the 2002 Harlan was aged in **100% new French oak barrels** for nearly two years. The estate’s hillside vineyards, planted in volcanic and sedimentary soils, contribute to its intensity, while meticulous vineyard management ensures the highest quality fruit.

Investment & Collectibility

The 2002 Harlan Estate is a benchmark Napa Valley vintage, widely considered among the greatest wines produced in California. With its perfect critical acclaim and rarity, it remains one of the most desirable investment wines from the region. Perfect for your collection.

Vintage Specifics & Accolades

The **2002 vintage** in Napa Valley delivered powerful, age-worthy wines of exceptional concentration and purity. Harlan Estate’s release stands as one of the crowning achievements of the year.

  • 100 points – Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  • 99 points – Vinous
  • 98 points – Wine Spectator

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