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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.6 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by KTelaak_Buffalo on 3/5/2024 & rated 96 points: This hits a 96+ for me on night #2. It's rich, deep, and complex by this point. Drinks young with potential on the first night. More like a 93. Very happy I experienced the difference. (875 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 6/6/2022 & rated 96 points: Christopher Tynan: I love Tynan’s take on To Kalon, with a serious cut instantly reminding me of a MACDONALD-esque physique and intensity that showcase some of the frame and fortitude that is sometimes missing in the overly ripe and gushing-hot versions from other producers that can override the true terroir of the TK vineyard. In young Cliff Lede style, this leads from the frame, hits you with a solid dose of black minerality, and then fires off with an acute blast of dark soil-laden berry fruit. It doesn’t have the layering that the other-worldly ’19 Songbook currently exhibits, but the TK will surely become less sinewy with another 7+ years in-bottle. It’s a bit of a steely display, which strikes at the fruit a bit and keeps the core from unleashing and expanding, but boy oh boy is there drive and focus that make this a wine for the ages. If you want right-now-melting-ice-cream-ravenous-fruit-bomb style, this ain’t it. This wine will straight snipe you for even looking at it sideways or thinking it’s a puppy to play with. Serious business here.
If you want a wine that makes you feel inferior because it is clearly more awesome and street-fighter than you (and it knows it), pick up a few of these bad boys. Don’t forget to grab a pack of diapers on the way home… and call your therapist. Hold bottles until your kid finishes med school. 96++ points. Tasted twice on separate occassions. (5110 views) | | | Tasted by mckillop on 5/28/2022 & rated 94 points: Another great 2019 from Napa. A baby that needs many years sleeping to realize it’s potential. I’m opening my own bottles since I didn’t get up to Napa to taste at release. (1801 views) |
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Decanter, 2019 Napa Cabernet Vintage Report (6/13/2022)
(Cliff Lede, Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jeb Dunnuck
JebDunnuck.com, Napa Valley's 2019s: Part 2 (3/10/2022)
(Cliff Lede Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, The 2019 Napa Valley Cabernets: A Deep Dive (Jan 2022) (1/1/2022)
(Cliff Lede Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Napa Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (10/22/2021)
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| 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 SauvignonBeckstoffer To Kalon VineyardBeckstoffer To Kalon continues to receive worldwide accolades for its wines, particularly in the last decade. The vineyard is on a gentle slope on the western foothills of the Oakville appellation. Soils are Bale loam/Bale clay loam, and are impeccably farmed by Andy Beckstoffer’s team. We have a by-acre contract so we can determine canopy, crop load and picking dates – but rely on the Beckstoffer viticulturists for insight into this unique vineyard to guide our decisions. ... ©2012 Tor Kenward Family Wines
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USAAmerican 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)Oakville |
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