Summer brought very cool mornings and very warm days, but then harvest was interrupted by wildfires across California, which came as grapes started to be picked, and we were very fortunate that none of our vineyards were in the areas of the active fires. While the mild spring season was a great early start, our winery working conditions had extensive safety protocols due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It was a warm, dry winter and the rain and cooler weather didn’t arrive until the end of March. A nice example of cool climate chardonnay with light oak and no malolactic fermentation to interfere with the rich, tasty fruit.The 2020 season will be remembered for factors beyond the typical harvest season. Stags’ Leap Winery Chardonnay, Napa Valley 2016 is complex, elegant, vibrant. Both wineries are in the Stags Leap (note: no apostrophe) district of Napa.
Michelle Wine Estate and Marchesi Antinori and is not connected to Stags’ Leap that made this wine.
That winery won the Judgment of Paris in 1976 and now is owned by Ste.
There also is a Stag’s Leap winery, notice the placement of the placement of the apostrophe. Jean, Greg Norman Estates, Lindeman’s, Wolf Blass, and Treasury’s flagship-Penfolds. Labels you may recognize beyond Stags’ Leap include Sterling Vineyards, Beaulieu Vineyard, Beringer, Chateau St. Today, Stags’ Leap is owned by Treasury Wine Estates, a major international player in the wine world, making wine in 12 countries, selling more than 35 million cases of wine a year, and generating sales of more than $2 billion. In 2009, Christophe Paubert joined Stags’ Leap as head winemaker and made this wine. While wine production was interrupted for extended periods-especially during Prohibition-wine grapes have been grown on the property continuously since its founding.Īfter 64 years of non-wine making (while still growing grapes for others), Carl Doumani resumed wine production at Stags’ Leap in 1972. The mountains behind the property on the eastern side are known as the Stags Leap Palisades. The Chase family got the Stags Leap name from a native Wappo legend of a stag leaping to escape Native American hunters. The manor house was built in 1890 and the first vintage was produced in 1893. Thompson, to found the estate on land where grapes has been planted by T.L. Horace Chase partnered with his uncle, W.W. Stags’ Leap is one of California’s oldest wineries. Round, pleasant, lengthy finish carried by the beam of acidity that supports the wine from initial attack through the end 14.3% ABV. Nicely balanced with tangy citrus notes arriving mid-palate, especially in second glass and after some air. Both vineyards are in the southern, cooler part of Napa influenced by fogs from San Pablo Bay. Some from Oak Knoll, providing tropical and stone fruit elements. Napa fruit mostly came from Carneros, delivering the apple, citrus, and minerality. Fresh and precise with no malolactic fermentation. Some oak, but not over the top, only 25% new wood used.
Bright stone fruits enough acidity to keep things fresh. Stags’ Leap Winery Chardonnay, Napa Valley 2016ĭry medium-full body. Medium gold color apple, white flowers, citrus on the nose yellow apple, peach, pear, grapefruit, drip of honey on the palate.
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