Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

Over the course of the previous five installments of this series on Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, I’ve focused on various specific appellations, trying to contextualize them in order to ...

Cabernet Sauvignon, native to Bordeaux, has thick blue skins, giving the resulting wines plentiful tannins and phenolics and making them particularly ageworthy. Over the past 50 years, Cabernet ...

With a winemaking history stretching back to 1839, Napa Valley has been heralded as the source of some of the world’s best Cabernet Sauvignon since 1976, when Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars 1973 ...

Cabernet Sauvignon and other red Bordeaux varieties. Today, the winery grows more than 9% of Napa Valley’s Sauvignon Blanc. Purchased by Chanel in 2015, it is one of a few Napa Valley wineries ...

Striking. Spottswoode’s Lyndenhurst, 2021 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon, 13.9%, $110, 4.5 stars. Layered notes of blackberry, cherry, cassis, with a hint of tobacco give this Cabernet great appeal.

Cabernet sauvignon is the most planted red wine grape in California and the most popular red wine. And the Napa Valley is its most revered source. Consequently, the average price of a ton of ...

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars was an implicit benchmark for California Cabernet Sauvignon and a beacon for the Napa Valley. These were wines of beguiling expression that did not rely on sheer power ...