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2021 Clos du Val Yettalil

Removed from the temperature and humidity controlled commercial cellar of One Market Restaurant in San Francisco; Acquired directly from the producer or wholesaler

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RATINGS

96+ Jeb Dunnuck

...stunning aromatics of black raspberries, blackcurrants, spring flowers, lead pencil, and hints of damp earth... It has the vintage's focused, concentrated, structured style on the palate and is medium to full-bodied, with building yet ripe, polished tannins and a gorgeous finish.

95Vinous / IWC

It offers up scents of blackberry, graphite, lavender, chocolate, spice and new leather. This dark, fleshy Stags Leap wine has a ton to offer.

94Wine Enthusiast

Warm, chocolaty flavors and a broad texture give this wine a suave, drinkable texture based on velvety tannins baked into the mix. It's easy to love the cocoa, blackberry, graphite and boysenberry jam notes.

93+ The Wine Advocate

Raspberries and cherries are joined by hints of mint and dried herbs, plus some mocha shadings.

93Wine Spectator

An alluring version, with a creamy texture to its mix of boysenberry and black currant preserve flavors. This lets subtle accents of anise, black tea, alder and tobacco peek in through the stylish finish.

16.5Jancis Robinson

PRODUCER

Clos du Val

Clos du Val was founded by John Goelet, a New York businessman, in 1972 in the Stag’s Leap District of Napa Valley. Bernard Portet was the founding winemaker, and he was responsible for much of the winery’s rise in reputation in the 1970s and 1980s. He retired in 2010. The winery owns 320 acres in Stag’s Leap and Carneros, and is known for its Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. Portet was among the first winemakers in the region to use Merlot to soften California Cabernet Sauvignon, and his wines were known for their elegance and finesse. Today Clos du Val’s winemaker is John Clews, and the winery continues to earn acclaim for its wine. Wine & Spirits Magazine named it Winery of the Year in 2010. The winery’s signature wine is the Stag’s Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon.

REGION

United States, California, Napa Valley, Stags Leap District

Stags Leap District AVA in southern Napa Valley has a storied history. It is home to Stag’s Leap Cellars, whose 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon won the famous Judgment of Paris blind tasting that included several of Bordeaux’s most exalted First Growths. Vineyards were started in area in the late 19th century, but the district’s rise in prestige started in the late 1960s when Nathan Fay planted Cabernet Sauvignon. Fay later sold his estate to Warren Winiarski, founder of Stag’s Leap Cellars. The district was given its own AVA designation in 1989, and today there are 1,400 vineyard acres. The AVA is especially notable because it was the first in the U.S. to be granted AVA status based on terroir. Its distinctive soils is a mix of volcanic soils, river sediment and loamy clay-like soil. Because the soils don’t retain water well, vineyards in Stag’s Leap tend to grow fruit with great intensity and flavor. Cabernet Sauvignon accounts for 95% of the grapes planted in Stags Leap.

VINTAGE

2021 Clos du Val Yettalil