2019 Cliff Lede Cabernet Sauvignon SongBook

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 96.5 points

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  4/14/2024 - MN Wine Junkie Likes this wine: 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.

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  4/14/2024 - bsumoba Likes this wine: 97 Points

  probable the surprise of the blind. Abreu Thor fruit. This held up in the lineup.

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  4/14/2024 - WineBurrowingWombat wrote:

  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.

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  6/6/2022 - csimm wrote: 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.

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