Jason Phillips

9.3

Beautiful color; more red tint than SLV. Fabulous nose, with dark red fruit, raspberries, and fig. Coats the palate with luscious red fruit, dark cherry, spice, oak, and faint taste of charcoal. Silky tannins with a dry finish. Really nice cab. — a month ago

Robert Harding

9.5

Funky and fruity. — 5 years ago

Vay John Blazina

9.2

Lovely dark fruit complex nose with a dark red color and a full body that is complex with a fairly long aftertaste. Big enough to stand up with a 2005 Stags Leap Fay Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. — 6 years ago

David D

9.1

Medium bodied, rich and juicy for a Valtellina. Savory & mineral, dried roses, cherries, prune, tobacco, some oak, anise. From Flatiron Wines. — 7 years ago

Dana Howard

9.8

Light just like I like it — 7 years ago

Louis Martin

9.8

Very sophisticated wine, has the velvety smoothness of the FAY Cab as well as the spice accents of the SLV Cab. — 8 years ago

Bonnie Wilson

9.6

We had a different grape variety at Farmers Apprentice and it was incredible!!! — 8 years ago

Somm David T

Independent Sommelier/Wine Educator

9.3

Welcome trade to Pebble Beach Food & Wine.

This was good but the SLV showed much better. Love the espresso notes. Good pair with the Gator Sausage.  — 3 months ago

John W

9.6

I’ll stand by my June 24, 2021 rating. Consistently great. — 4 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.3

Maraschino cherries. Nicely tannic. Leather. Delicious. — 6 years ago

with Grace and William

Jay Kline

9.2

Last night, a buddy of mine who’s a Disabled Veteran and Registered Architect, announced that he was assuming control of a SDVOSB Architecture firm. He had spent the better part of a year of trying to reach a purchase agreement. So it was an evening of celebration. He’s been a Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars fan for some time and he planned to pull the cork on a few bottles. We had a couple of rando bottles too but all were California Cabernet Sauvignon. I brought this bottle. It was part of my most recent delivery from Seavey and I was curious to try it out. Well...it was clearly infanticide. This was reductive at first and most of that blew off after about fifteen minutes. This was just so wound up. Delicious, fresh and almost crunchy fruit with a lot of structure. This was very bright compared to the Heart of Fay that preceded and just fell a touch short due to it being somewhat reticent. That being said, cellar time will be very kind to these and I would imagine this will show better down the road or with a lot of air, which this didn’t get. — 7 years ago

Jason DT

9.1

Bubbly champange. Nicr acidity — 8 years ago

Louis Martin

9.2

Spicier and more acidic than its FAY counterpart, hint of coffee, strong tannin aftertaste. — 8 years ago

Andrew Belzer

9.4

Blackberry, graphite, cocoa powder, espresso, cassis — 3 months ago

Stu

9.3

Heaps better than the other one — 4 years ago

Ian Hamel

9.4

2020/5/24 with grilled ribeye, eringi with fennel, tarragon and chives, whitebait aglio olio and radicchio salad. This had a wonderful balance of taut structure and fruit intensity, while still remaining light and translucent. That, with the red fruit and spice nose, gave it an almost Burgundian feel - it was also quite distinct from the other Fay bottles. — 6 years ago

Jay Kline

9.3

Last night, a buddy of mine who’s a Disabled Veteran and Registered Architect, announced that he was assuming control of a SDVOSB Architecture firm. He had spent the better part of a year of trying to reach a purchase agreement. So it was an evening of celebration. He’s been a Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars fan for some time and he planned to pull the cork on a few bottles. We had a couple of rando bottles too but all were California Cabernet Sauvignon. This was the opening salvo and a very good one at that. Perfumed, lush, velvety fruit with lovely structure. Hugely quaffable and already drinking very well with a short decant but I think this is pretty characteristic of the 2014 vintage. — 7 years ago

Shane Walker

9.0

Clear deep purple with clean pronounced aromas of plums, cherries, rose and spice. Dry with well balanced acidity, lovely smooth tannins and a medium bodied, medium finish. Complex flavours of black fruits make this an excellent, complex wine. — 7 years ago

with Michele

Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

9.1

At Cure in Pittsburgh. — 8 years ago

David Newland

9.5

Beautiful dark purple color with long legs. Subtle nose of dark fruits and cherry. Medium bodied tannins and hint of SLV minerals on near perfectly balanced palate. Finish is wonderful. Great bottle of wine. Cab and Petit Verdot blend. Not sure why Delectable is calling it Merlot. — 8 years ago