The Estate Vineyard, Named Out Loud
The home vineyard behind Clos du Val's Stags Leap Cabernet, bottled under its own name in a cool vintage that turned hot at the last moment. Twenty-one years on, the acidity was still the load-bearing element.
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The Grape They Kept Planting Anyway
A house built on Cabernet and a Bordelais idea of restraint, making Zinfandel — the grape it planted in 1972 because everyone did, and never quite stopped. Opened on an ordinary evening at home, one glass, one cork.