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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.

1988 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Capsule condition issue; lightly depressed cork; light label condition issue

1993 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

ST  91   
RP  90   
WS  90   
4 available
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2000 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  93   
ST  90   
4 available
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2000 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

WS  95   
RP  93   
ST  90   

2017 Realm Moonracer

JS  97   
JD  96   
VN  94   
2 available
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2017 Realm Moonracer

JS  97   
JD  96   
VN  94   

2018 Realm Moonracer

WA  94+    
7 available
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2021 Realm Moonracer

VN  97   

2014 Bevan Cellars Wildfoote Vineyard Vixen Block Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  99   

2015 Bevan Cellars Wildfoote Vineyard Vixen Block Cabernet Sauvignon

WA  98   
JD  96   

2009 Cliff Lede Cinnamon Rhapsody Cabernet Sauvignon

WA  93   
WS  91   
2 available
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2003 Cliff Lede Poetry Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  95   
6 available
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2005 Cliff Lede Poetry Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; heavy label condition issue

RP  95   
ST  93   
WS  91   

2014 Cliff Lede Scarlet Love Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  97   
VN  92   
2 available
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2013 Cliff Lede Stardust Heaven Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  98+    
VN  94   

2019 Odette Estate Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon

WA  93   
WS  90   
7 available
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1990 Clos du Val Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon

Very top shoulder fill

1999 Pillar Rock Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

WS  91   
7 available
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2010 Pine Ridge Epitome Cabernet Sauvignon

WS  92   

1990 Pine Ridge Stag's Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Light capsule condition issue; signs of past seepage

2019 Revana Stag's Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon

JD  95+    

2018 Stags' Leap Winery 125th Anniversary Petite Sirah

1.5ltr

Light label condition issue

2015 Stags' Leap Winery Audentia Cabernet Sauvignon

JS  97   
WA  96   
2 available
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2012 Beau Vigne Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  96   
4 available
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2016 Pott Wine Actaeon Quixote Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

1.5ltr

Etched bottle

WA  93   
VN  92+