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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.7 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 26 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by suarezd on 3/6/2024 & rated 91 points: Opened up nicely after 60 minutes of air. Good balance, med-to-full body. (160 views) | | | Tasted by wconnolly on 8/13/2023 & rated 90 points: See notes from 4/15/23 (425 views) | | | Tasted by wconnolly on 4/15/2023 & rated 90 points: Popped and poured and this was ready to go. Softer than a Lede Cabernet as this is there rendering of a left bank bordeaux. Plenty of raspberry, plum and earthy goodness. Full bodied but round with medium finish (551 views) | | | Tasted by leachriscellar on 1/14/2023 & rated 91 points: Ruby/garnett & blackberry color. Wet stone, blackberry , currant scents. Rich cherry and plum flavors. Tannic finish. (608 views) | | | Tasted by erpilot on 5/27/2022: Too much tannin for me (868 views) | | | Tasted by Agbell on 3/26/2022: Lots of fruit, some tannins and spice. Overall comes off fairly one dimensional. (839 views) | | | Tasted by blabbott on 10/16/2020 & rated 92 points: Big dark fruit with lovely tannins and a full earth filled flavor. Super good. (1999 views) | | | Tasted by rmcnees on 7/19/2020 & rated 89 points: Dark purple garnet colored, slightly opaque, medium bodied, nicely balanced and integrated moderate blackberry and currant fruits with notes of tobacco and spice turning to moderate tannins.
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2020/07/cliff-lede-napa-valley-claret-2017.html (1761 views) | | | Tasted by VinoViking on 6/6/2020 & rated 88 points: Not as good as last year. CL didn’t share the mix of grapes. Seems a bit too heavy, and a bit too jammy. Low QPR. (1771 views) | | | Tasted by wine4lux on 5/2/2020 & rated 91 points: Dark purple color, fruit forward -blackberry and currant, muted tobacco and spice. Nice. (1781 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Cliff Lede Producer websiteRed Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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