Could it be because of some legal issues related to the change of ownership? In 2007, Winiarski sold the winery to Chateau Ste. Cabernet Sauvignon, the Judgment of Paris winner, is exhibited in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.Ĭuriously, I couldnt find Winiarskis name anywhere on the winerys website. Warren Winiarskis legacy is so significant that the bottle of his 1973 S.L.V. John Williams, the founder of Frogs Leap Michael Silacci, the winemaker at Opus One and Rolando Herrera, who made wine at Chateau Potelle and Paul Hobbs and now owns Mi Sueno winery, have all worked here. The Hands of Time wall at the winery is whos who of Napa Valley: people who have worked at Stags Leap in various capacities throughout the years are continuing to shape the Napa Valley wine industry today. Winiarskis influence on the Californian wine industry and Napa Valley in particular has been profound. Bud break has not happened yet so we need to see whether the end-vines will bud out, grow new tendrils or not. But we need to see if it will have any effect on growth. With the 2017/18 vintage it is too soon to know. The fire burnt right down to the vineyards.Īs to whether there will be any long-term effects, Notaro thinks that only time will tell. We spent a lot of time in Starbucks using their WiFi. We were largely unscathed, Marcus Notaro tells me, the biggest difficulty for us was losing access to the winery, a power line, the cell phone towers we lost communication. They lost some end posts and an irrigation line but, apart from that, this iconic winery was mercifully saved. Wildfires ravished large swathes of Napa Valley and Sonoma County killing 44 people, injuring over 190 and destroying or severely damaging over 30 wineries and many residential homes.Ĭontrary to some reports it was the nearby Stags Leap Winery that had several outbuildings burn to the ground and not Stags Leap Wine Cellars where, for Notaro and his team, the fires mercifully stopped just short of the edge of the property and the two vineyards Fay and SLV.
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Whether Last Years Fires That Ravaged Large Parts Of Northern California Will Have Any LongĪ winemaker doesnt expect to travel to work in a full police escort with lights flashing, but in the second week of October last year thats exactly what Marcus Notaro and his team at Stags Leap Wine Cellars had to face to get to their vines. Originally, our intention was to reopen it as an inn, but wed always known wed also make wine as a way to keep the long tradition alive.Īccording to Doumani, he paid $525,000 for the property, which might have seemed expensive at the time but in hindsight seems a steal for 400 acres of historic Napa Valley land, 120 of which had been planted in vineyards, a manor house and half a dozen outbuildings and a hand-dug wine cave that dated back to the late 1800s.
The Stags Leap Manor had been boarded up and abandoned 13 years before I bought the property in 1970, Doumani said.
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Later, its renovated grounds could be seen on the TV show Falcon Crest and in movies such as Disneys 1906 Pollyanna and the 1991 film Dying Young that starred Julia Roberts.īut before the Hollywood crews arrived, the entire site needed to be renovated. Prohibition ended winery operations, and the property continued to evolve, functioning at times as a speakeasy, a hotel, a post office and a retreat for U.S. Twenty years later, the Chase ranch was sold. The first wine made on the property was in 1893, when then-owner Horace Chase, a Chicago businessman, built a summer home and winery. Whereas the current owners of Stags Leap talk about this being its 125th anniversary of winemaking, that wine has not been made on the property continuously for 125 years, although grapes may have been grown and sold during that time. To this day, the winery continues to release Cask 23 from the best grapes in significant vintages. He named it Cask 23, after the 1,000-gallon aging vessel from which it was pulled.
While the 1974 vintage was aging, Winiarski noticed that one of the casks contained a standout wine, so he released it as a premium reserve line. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars 2013 Sauvignon Blanc, Aveta, Napa Valley
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