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2021 Audentia Cabernet Sauvignon
2021 Audentia Cabernet Sauvignon
Stags' Leap Winery

2021 Audentia Cabernet Sauvignon

$175  / 750 mL
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Tasting Notes

Our 2021 Audentia is a bold expression from our estate. The wine displays a dense, inky core with a garnet hue. It is full-bodied and concentrated, showing a perfumed nose that opens with saturated blackberry, blackcurrant, and brambleberry. Notes are layered with a floral lift and subtle hints of mocha, baking spices, and anise seed. On the palate, it delivers both opulence and poise. There’s a generous rush of ripe red and black fruits—black raspberries, cherries, and black plums. These are balanced by savory undertones of tobacco leaf, graphite, and crushed earth. Silky, fine-grained tannins and vibrant acidity carry the wine through to a long, juicy finish. This wine showcases layered complexity with a graceful tension between richness and restraint. It can be enjoyed in its youth, but also rewards patience, as a few years in the cellar will allow it to soften and develop further nuance.

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“Deeply brooding notes of blackcurrants, mulberry bush, mocha, sweet spices and licorice. The palate is full-bodied with fine tannins and balanced acidity, giving flavors of blood plums, mocha, tobacco leaves and graphite. Refined and pure. Drink or hold.” -Ryan Montgomery, JamesSuckling.com

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“The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Estate Audentia is a block selection from the estate vineyard in Stags Leap. A blend of 98% Cabernet Sauvignon and 2% Cabernet Franc, it offers up raspberry and cherry aromas that somehow combine subtlety and intensity. It’s medium to full-bodied, framed on the palate by silky, fine-grained tannins, then is softly dusty yet firm on the prolonged finish. Give it a few years to soften and develop
bottle bouquet.” -Joe Czerwinksi, Robert Parker Wine Advocate

    • Technical info
      • Vintage: 2021
      • Volume: 750 mL
      • Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
      • Brand: Stags' Leap Winery
      Vintage Notes
      The 2021 season produced some of the best fruit in recent years. Early rain led to almost no notable precipitation for the rest of the season, providing an ideal environment for grapes to flower, bloom, and set. Budbreak occurred in early April, followed by flowering and bloom in May. Even ripening occurred during the summer with veraison appearing in early July. Low yields created intensely flavored, smaller fruit. Harvest began with white wine grapes in late July, while red wine grapes arrived at the end of August. With optimal ripening and taste, our winemakers took their time collecting grapes and crafting wines of fantastic character, with amazing color extraction, aromatic intensity, and tremendous balance.
    Technical info
    • Vintage: 2021
    • Volume: 750 mL
    • Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
    • Brand: Stags' Leap Winery
    Vintage Notes
    The 2021 season produced some of the best fruit in recent years. Early rain led to almost no notable precipitation for the rest of the season, providing an ideal environment for grapes to flower, bloom, and set. Budbreak occurred in early April, followed by flowering and bloom in May. Even ripening occurred during the summer with veraison appearing in early July. Low yields created intensely flavored, smaller fruit. Harvest began with white wine grapes in late July, while red wine grapes arrived at the end of August. With optimal ripening and taste, our winemakers took their time collecting grapes and crafting wines of fantastic character, with amazing color extraction, aromatic intensity, and tremendous balance.

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