Trevor Sheehan’s 2018 Stags Leap Technique is 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot, 10% Petit Verdot and 10% Malbec, aged for 14 months in all French oak. It’s a marvel.
I believe it was Michael Broadbent who first described Stags Leap Cabernets as being (like Margaux) “the iron fist in a velvet glove.” And this beautifully delineated, lush and rich yet exquisitely detailed Stags Leap Cabernet blend certainly fits that description.
Although it’s wonderfully rich, ripe and full (more in the Shafer mold than Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars), a 15% alcohol, there’s real velvety Stags Leap elegance and breed, too.
It’s simply head and shoulders above the (zero really) Stags Leap Cabernet blends you’ll find at this price…or even at its regular price of $40.
