Cliff Lede Cabernet Sauvignon Beckstoffer To Kalon Vineyard
Tasted 29 November 2018
Napa Valley · Oakville
From a comparative side-by-side BTK tasting with this Cliff Lede, a '16 MACDONALD, and a '15 Purlieu BTK (which ended up being an off-bottle it seemed).
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