About Steltzner Vineyards
Steltzner Vineyards is included in the Napa master inventory as a winery, vineyard or wine brand, but the current public visitor pathway is not sufficiently clear to promise a tasting-room visit. A producer can remain active, release wine and operate an online store without maintaining a routine public tasting room. For that reason, an office, mailing, vineyard or production address should never be converted automatically into an invitation to arrive.
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Richard Steltzner's 1971 Stags Leap District estate, one of the original pioneering Stags Leap District wine families w
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Steltzner Vineyards isSteltzner Vineyards is one of the original pioneering Stags Leap District wine families.
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Richard Steltzner, Richard Steltzner, who established his Silverado Trail Stags Leap District estate in 1971, before Warren Winiarski founded Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and before the Stags Leap District had been formally recognized as a distinct Napa Valley sub-appellation, was among the very first farmers to recognize the palisade volcanic terrain's potential for world-class Cabernet Sauvignon production.
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The Steltzner familyThe Steltzner family estate, continuously family-farmed on the Silverado Trail since 1971 through the 1976 Judgment of Paris, the formal Stags Leap District AVA designation in 1989, and the subsequent international recognition of the palisade volcanic terrain as producing Napa Valley's most iron-mineral and food-first-quality Cabernet Sauvignon, represents one of the most historically founding-significance and personally continuously family-operated Stags Leap District wine appointments available.
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Cabernet Sauvignon
Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon
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Cabernet Sauvignon from Steltzner Vineyards (Stags Leap District, Steltzner Estate).
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Merlot from Steltzner Vineyards (Stags Leap District, Steltzner Estate).
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Original Palisade Pioneer Appointment
Appointment with one of the original Stags Leap District founding families (farming since 1971), Steltzner Stags Leap Cabernet and Merlot from the iron-mineral palisade volcanic terrain that the family pioneered before Warren Winiarski's 1976 Paris triumph confirmed the sub-appellation's world-class status.
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