Cliff Lede Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- United States
- Stags Leap District
- Cabernet Sauvignon
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 10
- Community notes
- 123
- Merchant offers
- 55
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 88/ 100123 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £48per 75 cl2016 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
- Drinking window
- 2024–2038drinking2018 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 701 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.8 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.4 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, tobacco, chocolate, vanilla, dark chocolate
- Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, cassis, plum, blueberry
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, minerals
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, bing cherry, strawberry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, anise, eucalyptus
- Floral · lavender, violet, perfume, jasmine, magnolia
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 2021unit not stated
- 201893
- 2017unit not stated
- 201691£48 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
- 201591
- 201491
- 201393£50 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
- 200791
- 2000unit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2018
- 93 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2018
- drinking, window 2024–2038
- Lowest price
- 2016
- £48 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
Where to go next
LWIN 1343548