- Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
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winery_name = Stag's Leap Wine Cellars
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location_city = Yountville, California
location_country = USA
appellation = Stags Leap AVA
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year_founded = 1972
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key_people =Warren Winiarski , founder,Nicki Pruss , winemaker
parent_company =Chateau Ste. Michelle and Marchese Antinori Srl
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signature_wine = Cabernet Sauvignon
varietal1 = Cabernet Sauvignon
varietal2 = Sauvignon Blanc
varietal3 = Merlot
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homepage= http://www.cask23.com
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tasting=Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is a winery in the Stags Leap District of Napa Valley,
California established byWarren Winiarski in 1972. Winiarski sold the winery to a joint venture byChateau Ste. Michelle ofWoodinville, Washington and Marchesi Antinori Srl ofItaly for $185 million in August, 2007. [cite news | url=http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2007/07/31/news/local/doc46aebd76b3095292840648.txt|publisher=The Napa Valley Register|date=July 31, 2007|accessdate=2007-08-01|author=Jack Heeger|title=Wineries go on the block] [cite news|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|accessdate=2007-08-01|date=August 1, 2007|title=Napa Valley Stunner - Famed Winery Sold|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/01/MNFBRAN0I3.DTL|author=Jon Bonné]Awards
The new winery achieved international recognition just four years after its establishment at the historic Judgment of Paris where its 1973
Cabernet Sauvignon won first place among ten French and California wines in ablind taste test by leading French wine experts. [Frank Prial, "Wine Talk: California Reds Score High in Testing But Some Caveats Must Be Weighed," "New York Times ", 16 June 1979, 39.]The
San Francisco Wine Tasting of 1978 was a re-tasting of the same wines 20 months after the Paris event. Stag's Leap again won first place with a different set of judges.In the Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981, a re-match held five years after the Paris competition, Stag's Leap won fourth place.
At the French Culinary Institute Wine Tasting of 1986, held ten years after Paris, Stag's Leap received sixth place and in the
Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986 it won fourth place.In replication with the same wines first used in the Judgment of Paris competition, Stag's Leap achieved second place.
A bottle of 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon is now in the
Smithsonian National Museum of American History .ee also
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California wine
*wine competitions References
External links
* [http://www.cask23.com/our-story.htm Stag's Leap Wine Cellars]
* [http://www.slate.com/id/2142365/ The Judgment of Paris]
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