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Cabernet Sauvignon has a long history in Italian wines, being first introduced to the Piedmont region in 1820. In the mid-1970s, the grape earned notoriety and controversy as a component in the so-called "Super Tuscan" wines of Tuscany.
By the mid-1940s, "Private Reserve" was widely recognized as the benchmark for California Cabernet Sauvignon, and was served at all important White House functions. The shift to using small American oak barrels took place after the US entered WWII, and became an accepted tradition at BV under Tchelistcheff and his successors until 1989.
Stag's Leap Wine Cellars is a winery founded by Warren Winiarski in 1970 and based in the Stags Leap District of Napa Valley, California.. The winery achieved significant international recognition in 1976, six years after its establishment, at the Paris Wine Tasting of 1976, also known as the Judgment of Paris, where its 1973 vintage Cabernet Sauvignon won first place among ten top French and ...
The ranch elevations range from 1450 to 1600 feet above sea level, with near 360 degree exposure. A wide range of wildlife—including turkeys, mountain lions, and bear—inhabit this isolated location. This vineyard produces Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Cabernet Franc. The vineyard was planted in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2003. [9]
Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Merlot, and Pinot Noir followed in later years. [6] Kenwood Vineyards received early praise for its bottlings of Chardonnay, Zinfandel. [10] The Artist Series is a reserve Sonoma County Cabernet Sauvignon with a label that is redesigned annually to feature a work of art by a notable artist. [13]
The vineyard was planted to Nathan Fay's clone of Cabernet Sauvignon in the 1960s. [5] Fay also provided grapes to Stag's Leap Wine Cellars . In 1975, the winery hired Randy Dunn as winemaker, and offered the first vintage of their flagship wine, the Caymus Special Selection. [ 5 ]
When ten Cabernet Sauvignons (red), six Californians and four French, were sniffed, sipped, swished and spat, Stag's Leap Wine Cellars' '73 vintage ranked number one. [22] George Taber, the sole journalist who attended the event, penned the article Judgment of Paris in Time magazine reporting the shocking results with the California wines ...
In the Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981, the 1970 vintage of Beaulieu Vineyard George de Latour Private Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon received second place. The winery was purchased by international conglomerate Heublein Inc., in 1969. [4] Heublein was later acquired by RJR Nabisco, then sold to Grand Metropolitan in 1987.