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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.3 pts. and median of 93 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Takao on 3/7/2023 & rated 96 points: Deep ruby color; pronounced, youthful aromas of cassis, violet, lavender, plum, smoke, vanilla, sour cherry; full bodied, high acid, high tannins, high alcohol, long finish; rich and structured, and it’s more balanced than Fay 2018 in my opinion; needs more time, wait 5 years (751 views) | | | Tasted by Kozakofthewest on 2/11/2023 & rated 93 points: Just beautiful, tasted feb 11 2023 at the winery . First impression is its cask 23 ... its not its slv . Just grand black fruit with already Integrated tannins so early on. Glad to have a few bottles! (1367 views) | | | Tasted by Jason Wu on 1/23/2023 & rated 94 points: More intense and darker than FAY, but has the similar vein of fresh cherry. It has cinnamon, Christmas baking and some subtle meaty notes. On the palate, the wine is complex, layered and intriguing that makes you want to explore more. Medium plus flavour intensity, medium plus finish. More powerful and explosive than FAY, but less vibrant, like a mid-aged man vs a younger version of himself. (1284 views) | | | Tasted by probraided on 11/15/2022: A step up from the FAY Cab. Sauv. from the same vintage. Dark fruits on the nose and on the palate. Plums, black currant. A bit of black tea. Medium/Long finish. Good acid balance. Needs more time to develop. (1569 views) | | | Tasted by Irish_Wine on 11/1/2022 & rated 92 points: Deep ruby colour.
Pronounced nose with raspberry, blackberry, graphite, black plum, black cherry.
Pronounced on the palate with more black cherry. High acidity, high ripe tannins, high alcohol, full body, long finish.
Enjoyable wine but as with the Fay, expected more complexity and graphite dominant on the nose. Clearly drunk very young. Potentially just needs time in the bottle. (570 views) |
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Vinous, The 2021 Napa Valley Cabernets, Part One (Dec 2023) (12/1/2023)
(Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon S.L.V. Napa Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jeb Dunnuck
JebDunnuck.com, Napa Valley’s 2020s and 2021s (2/16/2023)
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(Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars California S.L.V., Red, United States) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jonathan Cristaldi
Decanter, 2019 Napa Cabernet Vintage Report (6/13/2022)
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| Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Producer website
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].Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican 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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