I’ve never been a fan of Stag’s Leap. While obviously a defining winery in the Napa Valley, their wines today are wickedly expensive, heavily oaked, tannic to a fault, and sold long before they’re ready, but proudly so. “At its peak in five years” really isn’t a selling point for me. “Ready to drink tonight and will knock your ass over” means a lot more as who out there can really age a wine adequately for five years? And so we come to Nine Points. This brand is an offshoot […]
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