Stag's Leap Wine Cellars AVETA Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley (2023) Corporate on some of the highest

on some of the highest vineyards in Mendoza

not so much that it buries the fruit

The Chardonnay is its only white

Handwash in warm soapy water and dry with a soft cloth

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 on some of the highestStag'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