Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc Napa Valley 2007

When you are only allowed to bring 2 bottles back into Canada and one of them turns out corked, it pisses you off.

April 2009

Wine Tasting NotesThe Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc bursts out of the glass with heaps of apricot, lychee fruit, boronia flowers, passion fruit and flint. Layers of white peach, mineral liqueur, and lime oil complement a rich mouthfull of lingering honey which lends itself to a lusciously long expressive finish.

January 2009

The 2007 Cliff Lede Sauvignon Blanc has aromas of mock-orange blossom, passion fruit, green ginger, and white pepper upon layers of almonds, tarragon-citrus, pomegranate, and Lily-of-the-Valley. The mouth perpetuates this duplicity, with citrus-driven flavors of peach liquor, honeyed lime, and white currant toying playfully with the dry nutty fatness of candied ginger and creamy marzipan.

October 2008

Served a little cold, but here are my impressions: lots of grass on the nose, there are also notes of limes and other citrus. In the mouth there's more grass with a core of underlying minerality, almost chalky in nature. Peaches come forth on the finish.

March 2009

No written review

August 2008