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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.

2022 Schrader

6-bottle Horizontal, Wood Case

2023 Schrader

6-bottle Horizontal, Wood Case

1994 Shafer Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork

RP  90   

1994 Shafer Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  90   

1984 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

5.0ltr

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

1987 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; top shoulder fill; light label condition issue

WS  96   
RP  90   

1994 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  95   

1994 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  95   

1995 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue; signed bottle

RP  99   
ST  93+    

1999 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

RP  97   
WS  97   
ST  94   
JR  18   

2004 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly elevated cork

WE  100   
RP  99   
WS  94   
ST  91-94   

2010 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  100   
JS  98   
ST  96+    
WS  95   
JR  15   

2014 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WA  98   
VN  97+    

2015 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

WA  98+    
JS  98   
VN  95+    
CT  94.6   

2017 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WA  98+    
JS  98   
JD  98   
VN  97   
JR  18   

2000 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

6-bottle Lot, Wood Case

WS  95   
RP  93   
ST  90   

2005 Shafer Vineyards One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WS  92   
ST  92   
RP  90   

2010 Shafer Vineyards One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  95   
WS  91   
ST  91   

2011 Shafer Vineyards One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon

ST  91+    
RP  90-92   
5 available
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2021 Shafer Vineyards One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon

WE  96   
VN  94   
WA  93   
5 available
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2022 Shafer Vineyards One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WE  95   
WA  93   
JS  93   
JD  93   
VN  92   

2014 Realm Moonracer

JS  98   
RP  96   

2016 Realm Moonracer

JS  98   
WA  96+    
JD  96   
3 available
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2017 Realm Moonracer

JS  97   
JD  96   
VN  94   
3 available
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2017 Realm Moonracer

Light capsule condition issue

JS  97   
JD  96   
VN  94