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| Drinking window: Drink between 2024 and 2037 (based on 4 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.3 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Twopawsup on 2/2/2024 & rated 94 points: Dark purple color with slow legs. Oak, blackberry and cassis on the nose. Plum, cedar and tobacco on the palate. Long leathery finish. (370 views) | | | Tasted by kingboo on 10/15/2023 & rated 95 points: Luscious, full-bodied, complex. Need you know more? (797 views) | | | Tasted by Woodruff on 5/27/2023: 5-27-23 Pierce said 98 wine enthusiast rating (928 views) | | | Tasted by darboleda01 on 4/19/2023 & rated 70 points: smooth, full bodied, not heavy, touch of tartness (963 views) | | | Tasted by Cuellar's Cellar on 4/2/2023: The wine looks ruby red colored, with super high tannins. There is no sediment in the bottle. It smells like plum, mushroom and stoniness. It tastes like cranberry, blackberry and oak. The body is full. The wine has coarse texture. The wine finishes long. The wine has medium acidity. nice bottle. I would hold for a few years (1027 views) | | | Tasted by rmcnees on 1/17/2023 & rated 94 points: Dark garnet purple colored, full bodied, dense and concentrated, round, rich core of black currants and dark cherry fruits accented by creme de cassis, notes of tobacco, spice, cocoa, graphite and crushed gravel.
https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2023/01/family-celebration-dinner-smoked-ribs.html (1109 views) | | | Tasted by isaacjamesbaker on 7/2/2022 & rated 94 points: Vibrant purple color. Deep, lush, inviting aromas of currants and plums, tangy and dark, laced with tobacco, eucalyptus, mint, pepper, some leather, cocoa and vanilla – just a lot of awesome scents. Rich with solid structure but the tannins have these refined edges and the acidity is surprisingly vibrant. A core of tart currants and dark plum fruit, accented with black tea, black licorice, coffee grounds, tobacco, and these lovely graphite and mineral accents. Age this a while, but it is suave, fresh and beautiful stuff. 85% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Merlot, 6% Petit Verdot and 2% Cabernet Franc, aged 21 months in 74% new French oak. (1192 views) |
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JebDunnuck.com, Napa Valley's 2019s: Part 2 (3/10/2022)
(Cliff Lede Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Roundabout Midnight) 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 Roundabout Midnight Napa Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (10/13/2021)
(Cliff Lede Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Stags Leap District Roundabout Midnight, Red, 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)Stags Leap District Stags Leap District |
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