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| Community Tasting Notes (average 96.5 pts. and median of 96 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by WineBurrowingWombat on 4/14/2024: Eyes Wide Shut - Day 2 (A quiet place): Nose: Spiced and red fruited confectionery with a light touch of vegetal notes.
Palate: Soft red fruits, along with soft forest floor, and gentle berries providing a lightness to the wine.
This was pleasantly soft, given the number of big boys everyone's been tasting. I was curious if given the time, would this have gained more weight or continued on with its softer style. I will never know sadly. (478 views) | | | Tasted by bsumoba on 4/14/2024 & rated 97 points: probable the surprise of the blind. Abreu Thor fruit. This held up in the lineup. (345 views) | | | Tasted by MN Wine Junkie on 4/14/2024 & rated 95 points: Champers and Napa Cabs Blind - Fun Times! (Chateau Simms): I believe this wine received about a 2 hour Slo-O.
This was in a blind line up of some very prestigious 2019 Napa reds (and one 2016 thrown in), specifically:
2019 MacDonald
2019 Kinsman Eades La Voleuse Du Chagrin
2019 Kinsman Eades Anjea Sleeping Lady Vineyard
2019 Colgin Tychson Hill
2019 Realm Absurd
2019 Scarecrow
2019 Harlan
2019 Myriad Elysian
2019 La Pelle Res
2019 Magnificent 7
2019 Cliff Lede Songbook
2016 Colgin Tychson Hill
2019 Cliff Lede Songbook - This wine may have suffered slightly from being last in the line up and also from following the Mag 7. The wine is nice and I did like it...one of the best values in the tasting for sure! My take on this was that it is too young and didn't stand out....which is a double edge sword, right? It didn't stand out as anything special amongst some unbelievable wines, but it also didn't stand out as though it didn't belong! If I was younger and starting a cellar, or drank much more wine than I do, I would definitely add this to my cellar! 95+ and will definitely rate higher with time in the cellar....I believe this wine needs at least 10 years to really reward drinkers. (436 views) | | | Tasted by csimm on 6/6/2022 & rated 99 points: Christopher Tynan: Well, this wine is pretty much all sorts of astounding. Especially for a Tynan wine, which typically leads from the frame, this is an expressly gushing specimen. I’m not even sure where it begins and where it ends. It is just kind of all over the place in the best of ways, inside and around every corner of my mouth, like some poltergeist phantasm kind of harpy lifeforce weaving through the soul of my tastebuds. In “pro”-speak, “This is a wine that flirts with perfection,” whatever that even means exactly…
Here's my read: Take the 2018 Songbook and infuse a spatter of black pen ink, blackberry syrup, freshly laid road tar somewhere just east of Flagstaff (or the Inferno), and the darkest Bangladesh soil known on the planet, and you’ve got yourself the 2019 Songbook. There’s red fruit in here, but it’s not red; it’s more “reblack,” or “black-ed,” or “blakred.” It’s goth with an Extreme Makeover: Emo Edition. Think Elvira cliff diving off the coast of Santorini. Thrilling opulence with a dark and cutting flex that suddenly curves into the most broodingly saturating molten chocolate lava cake kind of finish (…and not abhorrently sweet and gummy like one you might get at a Domino’s in Caracas). There is also an obsidian and devil-dog Hades rock thing going on here that ramps up the tension and frame, adding to the statuesque unfolding of this erotic voodoo gypsy serpent. If O-Ren Ishii was a wine, it would be the 2019 Songbook. So, ya, I am all about this wine. A three-digit second-coming isn’t out of the question here, with my reserving a whole point for now just because I know with a little time this will become even more amalgamized and seamless. Seductively evocative, the 2018 and 2019 Songbooks are a gorgeous pair. (3715 views) |
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JebDunnuck.com, Napa Valley's 2019s: Part 2 (3/10/2022)
(Cliff Lede Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Songbook) 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 Songbook Napa Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (10/13/2021)
(Cliff Lede Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Songbook, United States) Subscribe to see review text. |
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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 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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