Lot 250
CLIFF LEDE CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2005 (1) WA 93
CLIFF LEDE VINEYARDS POETRY CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2003 (1) WA 95
SPOTTSWOODE CABERNET SAUVIGNON ESTATE 2002 (1) WA 100
Lot 250 Details
CLIFF LEDE CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2005 (1)
Stags Leap District, Napa Valley.
u. bn. scraped & marked label.
WA 93
CLIFF LEDE VINEYARDS POETRY CABERNET SAUVIGNON 2003 (1)
Howell Mountain, Napa Valley.
u. bn. scraped label.
This beautiful, pure stylish wine (85% Cabernet, 10% Merlot, 5% Malbec) has gracefully entered its tenth year of life and is close to maturity, yet it still possesses a dense blue/purple color, medium body, and endearing notes of black raspberries, cherries and graphite. Layered and gracious in the style of a Napa version of a Margaux, this wine can be drunk with great pleasure now or cellared for at least another decade. June 2013 WA 95
SPOTTSWOODE CABERNET SAUVIGNON ESTATE 2002 (1)
Napa Valley.
u. bn. scraped label.
Now a perfect wine, the incredible perfume of blueberries, black raspberries and cassis, along with white flowers and camphor is extraordinarily fragrant and intense. That is easily matched by the magnificent full-bodied richness and compellingly layered mouthfeel of this wine that is rich, full-bodied and a still youthful vintage that remains capable of another 25-30 years of cellaring. This is a dramatic vintage for Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, and it is always fascinating to taste a top winery’s 2001 and 2002 next to each other because they are both such great years. However, the 2002s tend to be the more flamboyant wines, and the 2001s the more structured and broodingly backward. August 2016 Drink: 2016-2046 WA 100