Stag's Leap Wine Cellars ARTEMIS Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley (2021)

£85.00

2021 • 75cl • 14.8%

Red • Bold & Powerful • Cabernet Sauvignon

The wine from the estate that beat Bordeaux at the 1976 Judgment of Paris - Napa Cabernet that tastes expensive without shouting about it.

94 pts Decanter, 93 pts James Suckling, 93 pts Wine Enthusiast

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The 2021 Vintage

2021 was a low-yielding year, and that's the key to it. A dry winter and a tricky flowering left fewer, smaller berries on the vine - which sounds like bad news but means more concentration in every grape. A classic Napa summer of warm days and cool evening sea breezes did the rest, ripening the fruit slowly and evenly. The winemaker rated it possibly the best vintage he'd made. The wine that results is full-bodied and concentrated, with rich fruit and the structure to age comfortably.

Drink now - 2035.

Drink: now - 2035

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is one of the most famous names in Napa Valley, and for good reason: it was their wine that beat the best of Bordeaux at the legendary 1976 Paris tasting and put California on the map for serious red wine. ARTEMIS is their Napa Valley Cabernet - the wine that carries the house style to the widest audience.

Rather than come from a single plot, ARTEMIS is built from a handful of carefully chosen vineyards across the valley, blended together so each one adds something. It's almost entirely Cabernet Sauvignon, with tiny amounts of three other grapes for depth, and spends just over a year in French oak barrels - mostly older ones, so the oak supports the fruit rather than dominating it.

The result is rich and smooth, with ripe dark fruit - boysenberry, plum and blackcurrant - alongside softer notes of chocolate and baking spice. The tannins are plush and well integrated, so it's approachable young but has the structure to keep. Serve at around 16-18C.

The Fulham Wine Co Take

This is the bottle to reach for when you want Napa Cabernet that delivers on the name without the trophy-wine price. The pedigree is real - this is the estate that started it all in 1976 - and 2021 is a standout year that the winemaker himself rates among his finest. Open it now and it's already generous and easy to love; leave it a few years and it'll only get better.

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Stag's Leap Wine Cellars

Stags Leap Wine Cellars is an undisputed icon of Napa Valley, forever cementing American winemaking on the global stage after its momentous victory at the 1976 Judgment of Paris. Nestled beneath dramatic volcanic palisades, the estate’s legendary S.L.V. and FAY vineyards produce Cabernet Sauvignon of profound grace and structural integrity. Famously described as "an iron fist in a velvet glove," their meticulous approach yields deeply concentrated, terroir-precise masterpieces with exceptionally silken tannins. This is pure, blue-chip Napa luxury, offering collectors breathtaking longevity and absolute aristocratic pedigree.

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Napa Valley

Napa Valley is the name that made American wine serious - a narrow thirty-mile strip north of San Francisco Bay whose Cabernet Sauvignon stands with the best in the world. Volcanic and gravel soils, warm days and bay-cooled nights give a Cabernet of depth and polish, plush on the valley floor and firmer up on the mountain slopes. When a Napa red beat the great names of Bordeaux in a blind tasting in 1976, the wine world stopped to take notice - and it has never looked away.

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