About Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is the most historically world-wine-history-altering and 1976-Paris-judgment-winning wine estate in California. Warren Winiarski — the Chicago intellectual who left a University of Chicago teaching career to pursue winemaking in the Napa Valley — established the Silverado Trail Stags Leap District estate in 1970 with a personal conviction about the quality potential of the palisade volcanic terrain that few in the California wine establishment shared.
The 1976 Judgment of Paris — Steven Spurrier's blind tasting in which nine French wine judges evaluated California and French wines without knowing their origins — produced the most historically consequential result in California wine history when Warren Winiarski's 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon received the highest score from the French judges, placing above Château Mouton Rothschild, Château Haut-Brion, Château Montrose, and Château Léoville-Las-Cases in a result that shocked the French wine establishment and permanently altered the international perception of California wine quality.
The S.L.V. (Stag's Leap Vineyard) and Fay Vineyard single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon — along with the Cask 23 prestige selection that combines the finest lots from both historic vineyards — continue to represent the most historically world-wine-history-altering and palisade-Stags-Leap-District-specifically-volcanic-iron-mineral luxury Napa Valley Cabernet appointment available.