Stag's Leap Wine Cellars AVETA Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley (2023) Corporate toasted almond and brioche

toasted almond and brioche

Serve it as cold as you can

named after Andrew and Marie's daughter and made only since 2015 as the family gets to know the site

La Meirana is their flagship

aged around five years in the cellars and bottled in the distinctive crest-engraved shape modelled on a flask once given to King Henri IV

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars AVETA Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley (2023) Corporate toasted almond and briocheStag's Leap Wine Cellars is best known for the red that beat Bordeaux at the 1976 Paris tasting but AVETA shows they're just as deft with white. It's their Sauvignon Blanc, named after a water goddess often shown carrying fruit, which suits a wine this aromatic. The fruit comes from cooler pockets of the valley, near Oak Knoll and Carneros, where morning fog keeps the grapes fresh. Most of it is Sauvignon Blanc, lifted by a good slug of the intensely