February 15, 2024 - Amazing. Drinking very well now. Standard Stag’s Leap.Has softened a lot, drink now to 1-2 years.
January 1, 2024 - Dark Red in color with hints of licorice and vanilla. Aerated leveraging Aervana. Some sediment with wine tasting being very smooth and great finish beginning to end.
December 29, 2023 - Lovely showing, nice concentration on both the palate and nose. Juicy currant and dark plum fruit. Lovely currant and dark berry nose, hint of mint. Enticing and beautiful. Nuanced and interesting as well as having juicy sweet fruit though with a dry finish. First time with Chimmney Rock and really impressed
October 17, 2023 - Love stags leap district , classy lady , strong and smooth. Will be good for another 7 years , enjoy !
June 18, 2023 - Quite lovely ! All the good stuff out of stags leap district, the wine is in perfect place developed and at the same time can take quite a few years in the cellar. Beautiful red and dark fruits , soft pallet with resolved tannins and a hit of violet flowers. No faults can be found just not as concentrated hence a 92-93 score. Enjoy !
March 4, 2023 - From a Magnum I bought at Total Wine for $200 or so after having been in Mexico for 6 weeks and just wanted a nice red wine to share with my family in San Diego. Pulled the cork out two hours before dinner. Took a sip after an hour or so. Was surprised how soft this was out of a Magnum. I was a CR Wine Club Member and never found these wines long agers. I mostly drank them at 5-7 years after vintage.
That being said the wine had nice cassis, chocolate, earth, spice with medium mouthfeel. It was fairly simple lacking in depth and extraction but still very good. I would drink this wine up in 750ml bottles as it’s not likely to improve much from here as acidity is low. Still quite enjoyable but probably wouldn’t pay the money for it again. Drink up.
November 4, 2022 - Burgers
July 21, 2022 - Exceeded my already high expectations. Opened 2 hours before the first glass. Stag's Leap at its best. Cherry, cassis, elderberry. Some minerality. Well integrated and a medium finish. Glad I have a few more.
February 18, 2022 - First thing that I noted upon opening on the nose was a slight mint smell. First taste matched up as well then got hints of blackberry and cassis. Tannins were not strong but what I would term as medium. As I progressed on the first glass, the taste seemed a bit muted and somewhat soft. Not much of a fruit taste. Will decant it overnight and re-taste the following day. Will try to give another review.
October 19, 2021 - There was a brief window that I thought that wine might have been worth a couple more points more but time gave that away to a pretty meh bottling. I'll be the first to admit I'm spoiled with small boutique wine but I have enjoy larger production (sequoia grove) in the past and this is just okay. At $80 retail this should've had more fruit being that it's from Stags Leap. Nose was 80% there but that was about it. Consumed over two days.