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Feature Article
The mile-wide District, which is only three miles long, includes nearly 20 wineries and about 14 growers. Stags don't leap much here anymore, but the Cabernet certainly soars.
Stags Leap District ~ Napa Valley (AVA)
Stags Leap District:
Where Cabernet is King
The Stags Leap District would have been more confined than it is and may have carried a different name, if it weren't for one man who knew the subtleties between a "district" and an "area", as Alan Goldfarb learned for this profile of the AVA in this seventh part of The Napa Valley Series.
by
Alan Goldfarb
November 2, 2007
s it was originally proposed, the Stags Leap District in the Napa Valley would have been much smaller. The area, south of Yountville and north of the city of Napa might have had only 400-to-600 acres instead of the 1,300 it has now. Clos du Val Winery, one of the region’s iconic wineries would have been a mugwamp with half of one of its vineyards in the district, and the other in limbo. And the western boundary wouldn’t have reached across the Silverado Trail to the Napa River, thus eliminating some wineries and growers.
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