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| Drinking window: Drink between 2012 and 2018 (based on 29 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.6 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 5 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by MemorialWineFan on 9/16/2019 & rated 92 points: Drank beautifully. Group loved it with all the petit verdot in this. Rest were all full cabs or close. (423 views) | | | Tasted by MemorialWineFan on 6/13/2015 & rated 90 points: Very good wine. The petite verdot really added to the overall flavor. Paired this with a 2007 Fay. Both were very good, but the Golden Rectangle had something more. Enjoyable. (820 views) | | | Tasted by MemorialWineFan on 7/19/2013 & rated 93 points: Amazing wine. The 38% petite verdot makes such a difference coupled with the cabernet. 6 veteran wine drinkers sampled this bottle and all thought it was very good and different in a good way. One concern was the cork was like powder. I could not get the cork out as it desintegrated along the way. I was able to filter it into a decanter. Fortunately, the wine was in good shape I am chalking that up to the one bottle as I have had that laying down and chilled the whole time. (1250 views) | | | Tasted by nav2u on 2/24/2013 & rated 91 points: Cherry, cassis, and herbs de provence with well-integrated tannins. Lovely wine. (1114 views) | | | Tasted by MemorialWineFan on 2/9/2013 & rated 92 points: The nice thing about this bottle is the 38% petite verdot and how those grapes give the wine a different dimension. I decanted for two hours. Last glass was amazing. Give this wine some time to open up before consuming. As far as I know this wine is only available through the wine club or by visiting the winery and buying. I purchased mine at Stag's Leap several years ago during one of their private tours. (1400 views) |
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NOTE: This is easily confused with Stags' Leap Winery, but Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is a different winery. Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is considered one of Napa Valley's first-growths. "We were founded by Warren Winiarski and his family in 1970 and are best known for our estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignons — CASK 23, S.L.V., and FAY. Over the years, our wines have become some of the most highly regarded and collected wines worldwide. They are fashioned to express classic elegance, structure, and ageability, and to reflect the place in which they are grown." Stag's Leap Wine Cellars was known only in the Napa Valley until the now-famous 1976 Paris Tasting, when Winiarski's 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon, the first wine produced at the new winery, bested four top-ranked Bordeaux entries, including first-growths Château Mouton-Rothschild and Château Haut-Brion. The tasting landed Stag's Leap Wine Cellars squarely among the ranks of the world's most noteworthy Cabernet producers and placed Winiarski among the ranks of world's most respected winemakers. It also fundamentally transformed how Californian wines were viewed worldwide [StagsLeap See details here].Red Bordeaux BlendRed Bordeaux is generally made from a blend of grapes. Permitted grapes are Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Malbec and rarely Carménère.Today Carménère is rarely used, with Château Clerc Milon, a fifth growth Bordeaux, being one of the few to still retain Carménère vines. As of July 2019, Bordeaux wineries authorized the use of four new red grapes to combat temperature increases in Bordeaux. These newly approved grapes are Marselan, Touriga Nacional, Castets, and Arinarnoa.
Wineries all over the world aspire to making wines in a Bordeaux style. In 1988, a group of American vintners formed The Meritage Association to identify wines made in this way. Although most Meritage wines come from California, there are members of the Meritage Association in 18 states and five other countries, including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Israel, and Mexico.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Stags Leap District Stags Leap District |
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