Stag's Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon 2020
The Stag's Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. (also known as Stag’s Leap Vineyards) is the winery’s first vineyard. Today, this vineyard continues to produce wines with layers of complexity, spicy intensity and excellent structure. In 1976, the 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon won the famous Judgment of Paris blind tasting. For this wine the primary blocks were 2A, 3A, 1A, 3B and 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., characterised by their fire-borne volcanic soils, give this wine its structure and sense of minerality along with concentrated dark fruit flavours and ripe, elegant tannins. The 2020 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon offers generous aromas of black fruit, cocoa, blackberry jam, ripe plum and baking spice. Integrated fruit and oak flavours meld on the palate with rich, polished tannins. The tannin structure, dark fruit, and pleasing minerality point to this wine’s ability to age.
