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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.7 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 4 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by lozatron on 8/13/2022: Wine and BBQ Dinner (At home in leafy West London): Quieter than the Shafer that sad beside it, but what do you expect...a delicious, together, mature cali cab, albeit one clearly on the downslope. If you have some, consider drinking up. (580 views) | | | Tasted by Mbad77 on 8/6/2020 & rated 91 points: No detailed notes taken but plenty of life left in this. Nicely resolved now though an hours decant doesn’t hurt. Rather sweet on the palate but we did have some Bordeaux before it and a Ridge with it so might stand out as quite sweet in that company.
A touch simple but a very solid and very enjoyable 90-91 point.
Pleasantly surprised. (679 views) | | | Tasted by Nothung on 10/28/2018 & rated 89 points: A bit tired. Don’t think it was ever great. Very tight when opened. Decanted for about an hour, and it opened up. (905 views) | | | Tasted by otisabdul on 7/23/2004 & rated 89 points: Purple color, with slight bricking on the rims. Terrific Napa nose of currant, raspberry, cedar, and mint. Sticky dark fruited flavors, with plenty of polished tannins and acidity. The astringency and wood seem to be overtaking the fruit on the finish. Not sure if this will improve with age. Drink up. (4450 views) |
| By Clare Tooley MW
Decanter, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars SLV vertical (10/5/2021)
(Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, SLV Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley, Stags Leap District, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. | By Jancis Robinson, MW
JancisRobinson.com (6/23/2016)
(Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Slv Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley Red) Subscribe to see review text. |
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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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