Stags Leap District AVA
| Stags Leap District AVA | |
|---|---|
| Appellation type: | American Viticultural Area |
| Year of establishment: | 1989 |
| Country: | United States |
| Part of the wine-growing region: | Napa Valley AVA , North Coast AVA |
| Recognized cultivation area: | 1,092 hectares (2,700 acres) |
| Planted acreage: | 485 hectares (1,200 acre) |
| Grape varieties: | Cabernet Franc , Cabernet Sauvignon , Chardonnay , Malbec , Merlot , Petit Verdot , Sauvignon Blanc , Zinfandel |
Stags Leap District AVA (recognized since January 27, 1989) is a wine-growing region in the US state of California and is part of the national Napa Valley AVA . The area is approximately 10 km north of the city of Napa . The name "Stag's Leap" means "Hirschsprung" and goes on a legend of earlier in the Napa Valley -based Wappo Indians back. From a rocky hill in the middle of the valley, a deer escaped its hunters with a brave jump. Ancient rock carvings of the deer can still be found. The Stags Leap District was the first appellation in California that was created exclusively on the basis of a certain soil condition and thus corresponded to the term terroir . The soils formed here 10 million years ago and consist of both loam and clay washed ashore from the nearby Napa River and eroded volcanic rock from the Vaca Mountains .
Stags Leap District is particularly known for single-variety wines made from the Cabernet Sauvignon grape variety . In the 1976 Paris Wine Jury , a 1973 Cabernet wine from the Stag's Leap Wine Cellars owned by Warren Winiarski took first place in the red wine category, relegating well-known Bordeaux wineries to the lower ranks.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Code of Federal Regulations. "Section 9.117 Stags Leap District." ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Title 27: Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; Part 9 - American Viticultural Areas; Subpart C - Approved American Viticultural Areas. Last page view 23 December 2007.
- ↑ Stags Leap Winegrowers Association (2007). "Visit the District" ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Last page view 23 December 2007.
- ↑ a b Appellation America (2007). "Stags Leap District (AVA): Appellation Description" ( memento of the original from September 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Last page view 23 December 2007.
