Stag's Leap Karia Chardonnay 2023 Napa Valley – The Fulham Wine Company
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Stag's Leap

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars KARIA Chardonnay, Napa Valley (2023)

£48.00
2023 • 75cl • 14.5%
White • Rich & Opulent • Chardonnay
From the estate that beat Bordeaux in 1976 - a richer, barrel-influenced Napa Chardonnay with creamy texture and fresh fruit in balance.
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The 2023 Vintage

2023 was the coolest Napa vintage in a decade - a long, gentle growing season with none of the usual late-summer heat spikes. That slow, even ripening is what lets a richer style like this stay balanced: the creamy texture and ripe fruit are there, but underpinned by fresh acidity that keeps it lively rather than heavy.

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is one of Napa's most famous names - the estate whose red beat the best of Bordeaux at the 1976 Paris tasting. KARIA is their Chardonnay, and the name comes from a Greek word meaning "graceful."

The fruit comes from cooler vineyards in the southern part of the valley, near the bay, where morning and evening breezes keep the grapes fresh. Part of the wine is fermented and aged in French oak barrels and left to rest on its lees, which builds a creamy, rounded texture and a gentle note of vanilla and spice; the rest stays in steel to keep the fruit bright. The result leans rich without tipping into the heavy, over-oaked style California Chardonnay is sometimes known for.

Expect ripe stone fruit and citrus - peach, melon and lemon - wrapped in that soft, creamy texture, with a savoury, lingering finish. Serve chilled but not ice-cold, around 10-12C, to let the richness show.

The Fulham Wine Co Take

This is for anyone who likes a Chardonnay with some flesh on it - creamy and rounded, with ripe orchard fruit and a touch of vanilla from the barrel - but done with restraint, so it never turns into a butter bomb. A polished, generous white from one of California's great names. Pour it for people who think they want a big Chardonnay; this is the well-made version of that.

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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 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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