Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars:
Celebrating Milestone Moments

words: EMILY BELL
design: DANIELLE GRINBERG

A life well lived has its milestone moments. A winery well run has its milestones, too.

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars is celebrating two major milestone moments. Not only did the famed winery just celebrate its 50th anniversary, it’s also celebrating the 45th anniversary of its landmark victory in the famous 1976 Judgment of Paris. Which is to say, forty-five years ago (May 24th, to the day) the seemingly humble young winery from the Napa Valley ousted a roster of classic Bordeaux wines in a blind tasting—by French wine experts, no less. It was a milestone moment for the winery, and a milestone moment in the entire history of wine. The world began paying attention to Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars, Napa Valley, and the New World, and hasn’t stopped since.

That was forty-five years ago. Suffice to say 2021 is a special year for Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. No surprise: they want it to be a special year for you, too, a year to turn your attention to your own milestone moments, put the joys and accomplishments of your years front and center—and toast them with just the right glass of gorgeous wine. In fact, in honor of its dual anniversaries, Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars has opened up some of its prestigious Legacy Collection – rare wines from the library – so you can mark your milestone moments in style.

And there really will be a perfect wine for every milestone. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars might have beat out Bordeaux in 1976, but the winery wasn’t founded to stamp out the Old World with the rugged boot print of Californian enology. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars has built a legacy on creating beautiful age-worthy wines, a fusion of old and new, thoroughly rooted in terroir, driven by bold vision. And now, courtesy of winemaker Marcus Notaro, they have a vast, beautiful collection of elegant wines, a legacy maintained and enriched over fifty years. No doubt, there’s a wine in their library to mark your every milestone moment, big and small.

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars: Our Milestones

There are countless happy and important moments in the life of a winery—from bud break to releasing a new vintage to uncorking a beautiful bottle. We can’t count them all. But here are the milestones in fifty years of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. We hope you’ll celebrate with us.

Your Milestones

Now, more than ever, we need to celebrate our milestone moments. Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars wines drink beautifully now and age incredibly well, making them ideal wines to mark milestones big and small.

In fact, to celebrate any milestone, all you have to do is mark your calendar with every milestone moment, and explore the Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Legacy Collection . While you’re at it, join the mailing list here to get first dibs at exclusive offers. If the 1976 Judgment of Paris taught us anything, it’s that you never know when a milestone moment is just around the corner. You’ll want the right wine on hand.