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Lot 609 | 2024 Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon 12-bottle case

Lot 609
2024 Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon 12-bottle case

$1,800.00 $329.00 Save $1,471.00
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Available for purchase in the U.S. only excluding AK, DE, HI, RI, UT.

Lot 609 is a 100% estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignon knockout. In quintessential SLD fashion, this wine is commandingly powerful yet beautifully elegant – no surprise, given the standard of excellence set by its winemakers over decades. Deal terms are so stringent on this one we can’t publish…much of anything, really, and certainly nothing near the actual source price. Let’s just give a conservative number at $150+/bottle to be safe. But what else is there to say? Rare, exquisite Stags Leap Cab that comes along a few times in a decade, from a terrific vintage, for $27/bottle, including shipping?!

A tantalizingly dark pour emerges from the bottle. The nose captures the classic tension between power and finesse, opening with a core of red-to-black fruit reduction, raspberry coulis, and fresh-picked blackcurrant before unfolding into notes of violet, eucalyptus, dried herbs, and crushed-rock minerality. The palate is layered and finely built, with currant, raspberry, and dark cherry meeting cedar, chocolate, and a subtle drop of iodine all framed by exceptional acidity and wonderfully integrated velvety tannins. The finish is one of the finest we’ve tasted all year: French oak-infused vanilla and baking spice coalesce with crushed violets, carrying the dark fruit aloft before settling back into a lingering floral close of remarkable length.


14.8% alc

***BOTTLING EARLY JULY, SHIPPING SHORTLY AFTER***

These are truly astonishing times in this industry. Over the past few months, we’ve fielded a flurry of offers across the valley from illustrious names so renowned you probably wouldn’t even believe it if we were allowed to disclose them. Safe to say you should keep on paying very close attention to your inbox.

Among Napa’s top appellations, the legend of Stags Leap District needs no introduction – in 1976, it cemented California winemaking among the global elite when it bested Bordeaux’s First Growths at the Judgment of Paris. The first AVA created based on the distinct qualities of its soil, its Cabernets are celebrated for their signature “iron fist in a velvet glove” style – full of opulent power and density but still wrapped in smooth polish. Napa’s smallest appellation by total area, its fabled reputation and extremely limited volume make for serious exclusivity – we’ve only been able to nab one Stags release over the past five years. Today, that wait is over.

Lot 609 is a 100% estate-grown Cabernet Sauvignon knockout. In quintessential SLD fashion, this wine is commandingly powerful yet beautifully elegant – no surprise, given the standard of excellence set by its winemakers over decades. Deal terms are so stringent on this one we can’t publish…much of anything, really, and certainly nothing near the actual source price. Let’s just give a conservative number at $150+/bottle to be safe. But what else is there to say? Rare, exquisite Stags Leap Cab that comes along a few times in a decade, from a terrific vintage, for $27/bottle, including shipping?! This would have been an insane offer in the 1990s!

Our price: $329/case DELIVERED, $27+/bottle to your door!

Stags Leap: the valley within a valley. On its east side, steep bald rock faces called the Palisades reflect heat onto the hillsides below, helping Cabernet reach full ripeness. On the west side, high knolls and gentle rolling hills funnel air from nearby San Pablo Bay, cooling the vines and preserving freshness. Volcanic soils and alluvial gravelly loams shape wines of concentration, polish, and savory mineral nuance. Built to the nines, this wine received top-of-the-line inputs at every step from vineyard to bottle. After a finely tuned fermentation with an extended maceration, aging took place in 100% new French oak barrels.

A tantalizingly dark pour emerges from the bottle. The nose captures the classic tension between power and finesse, opening with a core of red-to-black fruit reduction, raspberry coulis, and fresh-picked blackcurrant before unfolding into notes of violet, eucalyptus, dried herbs, and crushed-rock minerality. The palate is layered and finely built, with currant, raspberry, and dark cherry meeting cedar, chocolate, and a subtle drop of iodine all framed by exceptional acidity and wonderfully integrated velvety tannins. The finish is one of the finest we’ve tasted all year: French oak-infused vanilla and baking spice coalesce with crushed violets, carrying the dark fruit aloft before settling back into a lingering floral close of remarkable length.