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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.5 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by TheSagePalate on 2/27/2024 & rated 88 points: Ruby purple in color. Acid medium high, alcohol high, full bodied, bone dry, high unripe tannins.
Aromas of plums, cassis, blackberries and some woody notes.
On the palate, dark plums, black berries, baking spices, all spice, vanilla, and oak. Very tannic, needs a lot more time.in the cellar. Was a mistake to open this one so early. (412 views) | | | Tasted by mathwonk on 2/15/2024: wow. filled the bill perfectly for a good Valentine's wine, with steak. good out of the bottle and kept softening and improving for the hour or more we took to drink it. we poured it into a decanter, which I recommend. not only for the beneficial air, but so you can see how much is left. the punt is so big, and the bottle so heavy, you might be disappointed if you turn up the bottle near the end to find nothing left. it is expensive, nearly $100, but I was certainly not disappointed, and immediately made a mental note to buy more. not subtle or thoughtful, but intense and rich.
I just realized this is stags' leap wine and not stag's leap wine. I never had a stags' leap wine I liked before, and was always a stag's leap drinker. glad to learn both wineries have something fine to offer. (382 views) | | | Tasted by Topper on 5/22/2023 & rated 93 points: Someone brought this over to dinner and we happened to be having marinated steak tips. The pairing was great and the food and wine stood up to each other nicely. While on the young side, this wine had enough balance and sweet tannins to be perfectly drinkable with the steak. I'd be happy to drink it again. (1364 views) | | | Tasted by Ben Christiansen on 4/25/2023: Smells like Stag's Leap fruit. A little bit more restrained notes Michael. And indeed, it is, a touch more rustic, and with some backbone to it. Grippy on the back. (1430 views) | | | Tasted by Starnes on 9/17/2022 & rated 94 points: A great cab. Paired will with filet mignon dinner. Still young but very good. (1773 views) |
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JebDunnuck.com, Napa Valley’s 2020s and 2021s (2/16/2023)
(Stags' Leap Winery Cabernet Sauvignon The Leap) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Jonathan Cristaldi
Decanter, 2019 Napa Cabernet Vintage Report (6/13/2022)
(Stags' Leap, The Leap Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Stags Leap District, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By James Suckling
JamesSuckling.com (4/27/2022)
(Stags’ Leap Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Stags Leap District The Leap, United States) Subscribe to see review text. |
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NOTE: This is easily confused with Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, but Stags' Leap Winery is a different winery. [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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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