{"id":2395,"date":"2023-06-30T12:49:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2023-06-30T14:23:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T14:23:12","slug":"stags-leap-winery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"Stags\u2019 Leap Winery"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are a number of reasons to enjoy a wine tasting visit to Stags\u2019 Leap Winery (https:\/\/www.stagsleap.com\/<\/a>): history, architecture, vistas, beauty and of course the wines.\u00a0 The tasting \u201croom\u201d is actually a house, more of a mansion that has been lovingly restored to its condition around the turn of the previous century.\u00a0 It has been the home of rich people, a resort hotel, a speakeasy, a home to squatters and, finally, a commercial winery.<\/p>\n

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You learn all the details and get to see much of the building as a part of what they call a Manor House Experience.\u00a0 You can also taste the wines without the tour, but we highly recommend being shown around.\u00a0 As you enter the property, you pass through an arcade of trees and see vineyards that date to the 1880\u2019s.\u00a0 You climb a hill to the parking lot and view across the estate, with more vineyards below.\u00a0 You will notice magnificent gardens everywhere around you and then you\u2019ll see this Victorian mansion, made of stone with a grand veranda running along one side.
\n\"\"<\/a>When you step inside, the room you enter is resplendent of early 20th<\/sup> century design, somewhere between Gatsby and your (rich) grandmother.\u00a0 The chandelier made of stags\u2019 horns certainly catches the eye, as do all the burnished wood accoutrements.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to whisper, but you do feel as though you ought to.<\/p>\n

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A tour guide takes you through the house, outbuildings and gardens, offering tastings of Stags\u2019 Leaps\u2019 lighter wines as you go.\u00a0 You wind up in an equally impressive dining room with the crest of the winery in stained glass.\u00a0 Here you sit and are served their more well-known wines.\u00a0 Since this is Napa Valley they serve a Cabernet Sauvignon, but interestingly, this is not Stag Leaps\u2019 flagship wine.\u00a0 They are best known for Petite Sirah, both in the more widely known white label with a leaping stag and their black label premium bottling.\u00a0 It is the latter, more interesting wine that they serve on the tour.<\/p>\n

The overall impression you get from a visit to Stags\u2019 Leap is of old-money luxury.\u00a0 In fact you learn during the tour that there was once a lot of money but it ran out and was only restored to its former glory in the 1980\u2019s. \u00a0It has been kept up by the current owner, Treasury Wine Cellars.\u00a0 What you see is gracious, as are the guides, and the wines project a full-bodied savor that may not be quite as fashionable as it once was but echoes what Napa Valley has always been.\u00a0 In fact, that may be said about the visit as a whole.<\/p>\n

We cannot fail to relate the history of the apostrophe.\u00a0 The AVA is Stags Leap, with no apostrophe at all.\u00a0 It merely says that stags do leap.\u00a0 Down the road is Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars<\/a>\u00a0(a leap by one stag).\u00a0 This winery is Stags\u2019 Leap (the leap of many stags).\u00a0 Is that clear?\u00a0 Actually, no it isn\u2019t and it was the subject of lawsuits for quite a few years.\u00a0 The guide tells the story with a little chuckle, but it\u2019s clear that there are still some bruises felt after all this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are a number of reasons to enjoy a wine tasting visit to Stags\u2019 Leap Winery (https:\/\/www.stagsleap.com\/): history, architecture, vistas, beauty and of course the wines.\u00a0 The tasting \u201croom\u201d is actually a house, more of a mansion that has been lovingly restored to its condition around the turn of the previous century.\u00a0 It has been … Continue reading Stags\u2019 Leap Winery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/powertasting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}