Stag's Leap Wine Cellars

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is one of Napa Valley’s benchmark Cabernet Sauvignon producers, founded in 1970 by Warren Winiarski in what would later become the Stags Leap District AVA. The winery shot to worldwide fame when its 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon unexpectedly beat top Bordeaux first growths at the 1976 “Judgment of Paris” tasting, an upset that helped put both Napa Valley and American wine on the global map. A bottle of that wine now sits in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, underscorin…