Review: 2020 Stags’ Leap Winery The Leap Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley

At the top of Stags’ Leap Winery’s mountain of Cabernet Sauvignon releases sits The Leap, a heavy-duty wine that, in this incarnation, is composed of 92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 4% Petite Sirah, 3% Malbec, and 1% Merlot. The wine showcases Stags’ Leap at the top of its game: rich, seductive fruit touches on the expected blackcurrants but then moves on to cherry and blueberry notes. Both of the latter are crystal clear amidst the seductive layers of chocolate and vanilla, dusted with baking spices, particular powdered ginger. The wine is never dense or overly tannic, with pretty, bracing acidity offering a cleansing quality you never really see in Cabernet. The finish offers a replay of everything that’s come before, settling on chocolate-covered blueberries to send you home for the evening. Top-notch stuff.

A / $84 / stagsleap.com

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