2019 Cliff Lede Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (3) Avg Score: 95.6 points

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  3/5/2024 - KTelaak_Buffalo Likes this wine: 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.

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  6/6/2022 - csimm wrote: 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.

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  5/28/2022 - mckillop wrote: 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.

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