Like an aging wine, wineries often go through dumb stages when nothing seems to be happening. Sometimes the producer couldn't hold a quick rise to fame or didn't have the capital funds to modernize his facility. Most of the time, though, the wines may not have lived up to their reputation. That has happened to Beaulieu Vineyards and Silver Oak, to name just two.
We could say the same for Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, the great wine founded in 1970 by the legendary Warren Winiarski. The wine made a name when its 1973 SLV cabernet sauvignon - made from grapes from just 3-year-old vines -beat several first-growth Bordeaux in...
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