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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.7 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 28 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by CLKeegan on 6/8/2022 & rated 97 points: Awesome (629 views) | | | Tasted by wconnolly on 10/3/2021 & rated 89 points: Inky, dark color. No real nose to speak of. Black and blue fruit on the palate with a hint of pepper, charcoal and coffee. Balanced with a reasonable tannic backbone. Nothin wrong with this and I have had several vintages. It just doesn't have the same character, depth or complexity as the other Lede Cabernet offerings. (793 views) | | | Tasted by wconnolly on 1/12/2021 & rated 89 points: Dark indigo in color. Full bodied and brooding on the palate. Notes of blackberry and black raspberry with coffee, leather and a touch of licorice on the palate. This took a while to open up to reveal it layers but was worth the wait. (999 views) | | | Tasted by The Wine Sherpa on 7/20/2020 & rated 91 points: Very good, well balanced Cab. (1217 views) | | | Tasted by cos65 on 5/14/2020: Opened for a Zoom Cliff Lede tasting event.
Deep purple ruby.
Dense, lush vanilla curranty berry fruit.
Lovely and delicious if a bit young.
Full Cali, but maintains nice balance. (1221 views) | | | Tasted by cos65 on 4/8/2020: Deep purple black
Ripe dark Napa fruit
Rich ripe tannic
Needs time, but quite tasty YFS (765 views) | | | Tasted by ecola on 2/8/2020 & rated 92 points: Big wine with dark fruit, toasty oak, balanced acidity. Typical ripeness for Calistoga, gripping tannins relax on day two. (713 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 12/9/2019 & rated 91 points: Decent. Good wine (917 views) | | | Tasted by cawineaux on 7/5/2019: Give this some time. Decanted 1 hour, drank over 3 hours. The last drop was the best. Dark color, graphite, blue fruit cobbler, and some earthy notes. IMHO, too early for this wine. (780 views) | | | Tasted by wine4lux on 12/15/2018 & rated 92 points: Opened about an hour before serving, very approachable despite its youth. (856 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 10/1/2018 & rated 91 points: Over all a good experience. Cheers. Drink from now to 2022 (1118 views) | | | Tasted by KeithSurg on 2/14/2018 & rated 93 points: Very interesting wine. Blue/black color. Etheral nose, earthy and funky. Blackberry, candied cherry, mint and flint on the palate. Firm tannins, acidity and minerality balance the fruit nicely. Drank after the CL Diamond Mountain, and enjoyed this more. (1833 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 2/9/2018: 3-Day Napa Cab Taste-Off: Vice Versa, B Cellars, Memento Mori, Alpha Omega, Purlieu, Janzen, Realm, Myriad, MACDONALD, Maybach, and more...; 2/7/2018-2/9/2018 (Napa): Unlike the BTK, Poetry, or Scarlet Love, I was fortunately (or perhaps unfortunately) able to rate this wine with some semblance of disciplined inquiry and analysis, though a numeric quantifier at this point still seems premature.
Notes of unripe blackberry, unripe plum, bitter wild red raspberry, cranberry, asphalt, vanilla, and ethanol. Mid-palate was a single, one-note, center-punch shot to the tongue. The finish was quickly clipped by bitterness and astringency.
Linear, stunted, and barely just starting to peek around the corner with any sort of a nuanced flavor profile, this Cliff Lede offering will need a few years to prove if it can come around in any fashion worthy of consumption. Hold until after 2020+. (4959 views) | | | Tasted by Geaux Tigers on 1/5/2018 & rated 91 points: Good against unfair competition. Tannins, oak and vanilla held this back. Went up against an ‘07 and ‘10 but held its own on a relative basis. Would not put in my cellar, but would not hesitate to purchase if out with clients. Good restaurant purchase as is ready to drink with minimal decant. (1325 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 12/12/2017 & rated 92 points: This bottle has easily 10 more years. high tannins. The wine looks purple colored. The legs are medium. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like blueberry, mushroom, cedar and vanilla. It tastes like cherry, pomegranate, mineral and stoniness. The body is medium/full. The wine has oily texture. The wine finishes long.
Im just waiting for the fruit to come out. All of the fruit that i tasted were hints. Nothing in my face. Hold on to this till 2020 min. (1206 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 10/25/2017 & rated 92 points: black cherries and black licorice aromas....mushroom and dark fruit in the palate, with complexity. Shows age with some tannins. (1096 views) | | | Tasted by ONEFIVE on 4/19/2017: Ginger, kung pao sauce, raspberry compote.
Creamy texture and supportive tannins.
Needs some time to integrate but not bad at the moment. (819 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Cliff Lede Producer websiteCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)CalistogaDiamond mountain |
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