![]() ![]() Interestingly, and as Parker pointed out succinctly in his much-quoted report “Napa’s Cup Runneth Over,” each year was characterized by drought conditions but fairly mild temperatures. Shafer Hillside Select, Bevan, and Odette (PlumpJack’s new Stags Leap project) all garnered 100-point mentions from The Wine Advocate. In both 20 - extraordinary back-to-back vintages that Robert Parker would compare favorably to any in Napa Valley history - Stags Leap shined like never before. ![]() Steven Spurrier’s “Judgment of Paris” tasting catapulted Napa Valley, and more specifically, Stags Leap, into the international limelight, which Stags Leap has never relinquished. A panel of French judges placed Warren Winiarski’s 1973 Stag’s Leap Cabernet Sauvignon #1 - outpointing First Growths Mouton-Rothschild and Haut-Brion! ![]() When the votes were tallied and the bottles disrobed, the French cried foul. Pitted against Bordeaux’s First Growths were a handful of upstart Cabernets from California. “Power, muscle, elegance and delicacy” - Britt Nichols’ First Shot at Stags Leapįorty years ago, a British wine merchant organized what seemed to be a one-sided blind tasting on the banks of the Seine. ![]()
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