1998 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon Fay

Community Tasting Notes (36) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  9/17/2021 - Charlie C Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Deep red with slight fading at rim. Gorgeous nose of black cherries and tobacco. Beautifully delineated fruit, black cherries, blackberries, sweet tobacco. Perfectly resolved tannins, soft and clear acidity, beautiful balance. Finishes long and graceful with dark fruits and a touch of minerality. This is at peak but not heading south anytime soon. Mellow, yet bold, elegant. Still youthful. I think you could safely drink this over the next 10 years. No sign of the 14.5% ABV. Yes, I really liked it -- more importantly, so did my wife.

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  6/1/2021 - Shapnyc wrote: 93 Points

  Better than ever.

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  11/29/2020 - mklasing Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Excellent even after all of these years. Decanted for 45 min. Fruit flavors came alive at that point. Tannins were soft. Aged very well.

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  5/20/2017 - doctornoah wrote: 91 Points

  A WineBid bottle but in impeccable condition. The notes that some are throwing out there with bricking, loss of fruit, etc, suggest either poor storage or significant bottle variation.
  
  This comes in at 14.5% on the bottle but because this was a somewhat thin vintage, it feels a bit hot. Ripe, dark cherry and a little cassis. Some nice tertiary notes of tobacco and wet leather and a very slight touch of Brett in the clove/band-aid-but-not-poopy range, which I have seen in other Fays.

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  11/24/2016 - tcdouglas Likes this wine: 80 Points

  Past its prime... Too bad!

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