Taste: For being just up the road from Rutherford, these wines (Lot's 15 and 16) are worlds apart. Beautiful, elegant nose of cherries, berries and violets. Once on the palate though one notices something very different about this wine; incredibly smooth entry leads into a complex mouthful of fruit flavors rises up with virtually no detectible tannin, a hallmark of great Stags Leap Cabernet. About as balanced a wine as one could get. Lovely finish is pure fruit and chocolate. Pristine and pure Cabernet!
Cameron Confidential: What more to say, its Stag's Leap Cabernet! OK - that's getting old but these wines are dynamite. Sourced primarily from a vineyard just east of the Silverado Trail in Stag's Leap in deep volcanic soils at the foot of looming mountains. 2004 harvest was very sparse but the grapes had exceptional flavor intensity. Like Lot 15, you're looking at components sourced from $35-50/bottle programs
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