Stags' Leap Winery Cabernet Sauvignon Vintner’s Select Napa Valley 2024

“Well-structured with plush tannins, this wine captures intensity and finesse. With small amounts of Malbec and Petite Sirah, the wine is silky, with a demeanor of impactful grace. Flavors of chocolate-cherry, cinnamon rhubarb, and lavender mint melt across the palate. With a fine acid structure, it demonstrates youthful vigor and freshness.”

“Positively powerful with built-in freshness. The estate is tucked into its own valley behind Odette and near Quixote. This is beautifully polished, offering the power and intensity of the 2024 vintage with a through-line of aromatic mineral brightness in the graphite and wet slate character, infused with violets, creme de cassis, blueberry and built on powerful, soaring tannins that are neatly compact, creating a solid foundation supporting all this wonderfully pure, dark and enticing fruit.”