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A highly extracted, black garnet color, the Stags’ Leap 2023 Yountville Cabernet Sauvignon reflects classic varietal character in its tone and luscious aromas of fresh cassis, licorice, and forest mist. Pervasive spice notes enhance this profile, first on the nose with distinct cumin, cracked pepper, and roast coffee bean scents, then on the palate, where a taste of turmeric seasons ripe, black cherry and tamarind syrup flavors, with firm tannins accentuating and sustaining the mouth’s leathery, spiced impression through a finish brimming with blackberry, coriander, and caramel notes. This striking Cabernet merits one’s patience to age for 5 - 20 years. When enjoyed, pair with savory pot roast, Mongolian beef stir-fry, or piquant, grilled vegetable fajitas.
Vintage:2023
Appellation:Yountville, Napa Valley
Varietal:Cabernet Sauvignon
Blend:94% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Petit Verdot
Oak treatment:53% new French oak barrels & 47% older seasoned oak barrels for 21 months
Alcohol:14.1
This Cabernet Sauvignon is a barrel selection of the most expressive lots from the Yountville appellation. It was aged for 21 months in a mix of 53% new French oak barrels and 47% older seasoned oak barrels, and blended just prior to bottling. Keeping the lots separate throughout fermentation and aging allowed Winemaker Ludovic Dervin to monitor and evaluate each lot individually, coaxing each to its maximum potential and complexity.
Cabernet Sauvignon is synonymous with Napa Valley and for decades has been a mainstay in the winemaking program at Stags’ Leap Winery. Our Yountville Cabernet Sauvignon is a combination of grapes from select growers with a focus on sourcing from the valley floor. Here the alluvial fan soils
encourage vines to root deeply to find water. A few feet of topsoil cover a defined bed of cobblestones mixed with gravel, which provide enough stress to keep the grapes desirably small. The grapes achieve exceptionally thick and flavorful skins, which yield rich, highly extracted wine.
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Our 2023 Vintage
2023 delivered one of the most prolonged and compact harvest seasons in recent years within the Napa Valley. The extended growing season delayed the start of harvest until the fifth of September —a notable two and a half weeks later than the previous year. This posed a logistical challenge in the cellar as tanks quickly filled and there was concern about completing harvest before the onset of the rainy season. Despite the challenges, our winemaking team rose to the occasion, and the 2023 harvest season delivered a bountiful yield of exceptional quality fruit. The grapes displayed intense color and complex flavors, maintaining a vibrant acidity that adds a distinctive character to what is sure to be remembered as a wine collector’s vintage.
