Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon, SLV, Napa Valley

Description

S.L.V., also known as Stag’s Leap Vineyards, is the winery’s first vineyard. Planted in 1970, this vineyard achieved international fame when three-year-old vines from the 1973 harvest produced a wine that stunned the wine world when it bested some of France’s greatest wines in a 1976 blind tasting known as the “Judgment of Paris.” Today, this history-making vineyard continues to produce wines with layers of complexity, spicy intensity and excellent structure-promising long life and ageability.2014 was the third in a string of excellent vintages in Napa Valley and all of the vineyard blocks are represented in the 2014 offering, including S.L.V. Block 4 – the “grande dame” of the vineyard -which was planted in 1972. These vines along with blocks on the eastern side of S.L.V., characterized by their fire-borne volcanic soils, give this wine its structure and sense of minerality along with concentrated dark fruit flavors and ripe, elegant tannins. Vines in alluvial soils in the western…