2015 SLV Cabernet Sauvignon
ABOUT S.L.V.
S.L.V., also known as Stag’s Leap Vineyards, is the winery’s first vineyard. Planted in 1970, this vineyard achieved international fame when three-year-old vines from the 1973 harvest produced a wine that stunned the wine world when it bested some of France’s greatest wines in a 1976 blind tasting known as the “Judgment of Paris.” Today, this history-making vineyard continues to produce wines with layers of complexity, spicy intensity and excellent structure—promising long life and age ability.
TASTING NOTES
The 2015 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon has generous aromas of cocoa powder, black tea, chocolate fudge, and currants. The wine has a rich entry with robust flavors of black fruit, spice, and dusty tannins. The structured tannins, rich fruit, and good minerality point to this wine’s ability to age.
FOOD PAIRINGS
Enjoy with barbecued Tri-tip, mustard-rubbed pork loin, parmesan, and black pepper pasta (Cacio) or crispy gnocchi with brown butter and sage.
A barrel sample, the deep garnet-purple colored 2015 S. L. V. offers up aromas of pepper, spice box, lavender and potpourri with mulberries, black cherries and black berries at the core, plus plum preserves and bay leaves hints. Medium to full-bodied with fine-grained tannins, the palate is firm and earthy with a long.