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2016 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, Cask 23, Napa Valley
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Why We're Buying
Stag’s Leap Cask 23 hails from not one, but two revered Napa Valley vineyards. The cabernet sauvignon receives 56 of its fruit from Fay and 44 from Stag’s Leap Vineyard. The result is a cohesive, refined wine that earned a place at the 1976 Judgment of Paris – a blind tasting in which California upset heavily favored France. The 2016 Stag’s Leap Cask 23 opens with black currants, blackberries, mocha, licorice, cherry liqueur, and hints of toasted nuts. Deep inside the garnet-purple body are polished tannins that play a supporting role to the concentrated fruit core. Note how the youthful and vibrant nose belies the subtle intensity of this cabernet sauvignon. Expect 2016 Stag’s Leap Cask 23 to age well for three-plus decades. The Final Sip: Stag’s Leap is in peak form with this 2016 cabernet sauvignon. Don’t just take our word for it. Only the legendary 2013 vintage has higher ratings from critics.
Critics Scores
James Suckling
Shows extremely complex aromas of blackberries and currants with pine needles and black olives. Subtle, yet complete on the nose. Full body, extremely fine tannins and good balance. Very long and caressing on the finish. Goes on for a long time. Better after 2021.
Wine Enthusiast
This gorgeous wine combines the best of two historic vineyards—Fay and S.L.V.—into one cohesive, refined whole. A soft entry of woody spice and toasted oak leads the way to an expansive midpalate of currant, crushed rock, dried herb and elegant tannins begging for further time in the bottle. Enjoy 2026–2036.
Wine Spectator
Well-detailed, with a deep, solidly built core of currant, blackberry, bramble and apple wood notes, showing good energy through the richly layered finish. Youthful, but slowly takes on a more seductive feel as this airs in the glass. Best from 2022 through 2035.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The deep purple-black colored barrel sample of 2016 Cask 23 Cabernet Sauvignon features compelling, youthful notes of freshly crushed red and black currants, black cherries, kirsch and mocha with nuances of Marmite toast, roasted nuts, underbrush and truffles. Medium to full-bodied, the palate has a very firm frame of super ripe tannins supporting the multilayered flavors, finishing on an epically long, lingering fragrant earth note. Beautiful.
Vinous
The 2016 Cabernet Sauvignon Cask 23 is powerful and savory in the glass, with tons of both aromatic nuance and supporting structure that give the wine gravitas as well as a very clear sense of direction. The plum, blackberry jam, grilled herb, lavender and dark spice notes are all very finely drawn in this big but polished Cabernet Sauvignon from Stag's Leap Wine Cellars.