Napa Valley

Medium

Natural Cork

White

This reserve-level Sauvignon Blanc, named Marla after founder Cliff Lede’s daughter, is aged in 78% new French oak Burgundy barrels with light toast. It immediately impresses with its luxurious richness and oily texture, offering far more opulence than the Napa Sauvignon Blanc while maintaining a fresh, juicy acidity at its core. This is a riper style in 2023, leading with pineapple and dried mango notes, and showing medium-bodied richness with hints of dried banana. Despite all the ripeness and fruit weight, there’s a real linearity in this vintage—a focused, expressive tension that lifts the wine. Winemaker Christopher Tynan sources Sémillon from a site near Eisele Vineyard in Calistoga, where 1970s plantings produce low yields that imbue the wine with old-vine richness and freshness. The Sauvignon Musqué component comes from a Carneros site, and the Sauvignon Blanc from the estate Rhythm Vineyard in the Stags Leap District (notably, its blocks are named after famous songs, with this wine coming from the Hey Jude block). The gravelly soils at the vineyard’s base near the winery contribute to its mineral-driven character.

Sauvignon Blanc

Sémillon

Cliff Lede, Marla Blanc, Napa Valley, California, USA, 2024

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This reserve-level Sauvignon Blanc, named Marla after founder Cliff Lede’s daughter, is aged in 78% new French oak Burgundy barr

Cliff Lede, Marla Blanc, Napa Valley, California, USA 2024

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