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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.

1992 Shafer Vineyards Firebreak

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

1999 Shafer Vineyards Firebreak

WS  91   
RP  90   
2 available
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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   

1989 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

3.0ltr

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

RP  90   
WS  90   

1991 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

RP  96   
WS  93   
JR  18   

1994 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  99   
WS  95   
ST  95   

2001 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  95   
ST  95+    
6 available
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2001 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  95   
ST  95+    
2 available
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2001 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Heavily elevated cork; light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  95   
ST  95+    

2001 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork; signs of past seepage; light label condition issue

RP  100   
WS  95   
ST  95+    

2001 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  100   
WS  95   
ST  95+    

2003 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

RP  100   
WE  96   
WS  93   
ST  93   

2010 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

RP  100   
JS  98   
ST  96+    
WS  95   
JR  15   

2016 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon

WA  100   
VN  100   
JD  100   
CT  96   
WS  95   

2021 Shafer Vineyards One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; light label condition issue

WE  96   
VN  94   
WA  93   

1997 Robert Mondavi Stag's Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill

WS  92   
RP  91   
3 available
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1997 Robert Mondavi Stag's Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon

Lightly depressed cork; base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  91   

1997 Robert Mondavi Stag's Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon

Base neck fill; light label condition issue

WS  92   
RP  91   

2012 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon

Light capsule condition issue; base neck fill; light label condition issue

RP  90   
JR  16   

2018 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon

2 available
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2020 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

5 available
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2020 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

3 available
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2020 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon

2021 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon

24 available
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2021 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Artemis Cabernet Sauvignon

Light label condition issue

8 available
Bid *