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• Cuellar's Cellar Likes this wine: 92 points

  April 4, 2024 - Drank slowly, and this wine still has some years to come. Tannins were very present. 8 years in the bottle and still rocking!! Cheers

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• wconnolly Likes this wine: 91 points

  May 27, 2023 - Typical Lede Cab. Big, bold, black fruit, tannins. This has great possibilities but despite this being well into the drinking window, I am convinced we opened this about three or four years too early. Tannins overwhelmed the fruit. Looking at other notes, a lengthy decant might have helped but I will wait a while before the next one.

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• iamandyc Likes this wine: 95 points

  September 22, 2022 - This bottle was singing with a decant on day #1 and even better on day#2. At its peak for my taste as it combines beautiful red and black fruit, marvelous dusty plush mouthfeel, subtle secondary flavors and a long smooth finish. Such a classic 2016 Napa Stags Leap cab. Just delicious! Killer QPR at club pricing.

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• Cuellar's Cellar Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 29, 2022 - a lovely wine, and this wine is ready today. Nice rich fruit. Opens up nicely. Tannins are starting to mellow out. Drink now through the next few years. Cheers

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• Ruby99 Likes this wine: 93 points

  August 13, 2022 - We don't usually open bottles this young but wanted to see what we had here. Brought this home from a recent trip to Napa having tasted the 2019 equivalent bottle and really liking it
  
  Dark purple color with a wonderful sweet dark fruit nose like blackberry pie. We decanted for just 30 minutes before the first glass.
  On the palate the wine is rich and smooth with very well integrated fine tannin making it completely approachable despite it's youth. Dark fruits like sweet black cherry, plum and blackberry are in your face with hints of vanilla and maybe coconut developing with aeration. the finish is fairly long.
  The only thing keeping my score at 93 rather than 95 is that it is more monolithic than complex. Absolutely delicious, but not a wine for debating the nuances. Perhaps with time more subtleties might develop...but it is drinking superbly right now. And while probably age-worthy I think this is a hedonistic style best drunk at 6-10 years of age
  I wish wines like this cost $45, but even at $90 I think I will try to buy a couple more. Excellent bottle.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2016
• Type Red
• Producer Cliff Lede
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Rock Block Series Soul Fire
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Stags Leap District

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• Consumed 771 (35%)

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