Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon FAY Hillside Stags Leap District 2021 750ml

Nathan Fay planted the first Cabernet Sauvignon in what became the Stags Leap District in 1961, and tasting his homemade wine helped persuade Warren Winiarski to found Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, which bought the FAY Vineyard in 1986. FAY Hillside is a separate, limited bottling from the volcanic-soil blocks nearest the Stags Leap Palisades, where smaller berries and clusters give added concentration and structure. From the excellent 2021 vintage, it shows blackcurrant, black olive, cedar and slate with a hint of pine needle. James Suckling found it full-bodied, linear and racy with long tannins, summing it up as "classy." Cellar a few more years and enjoy into the early 2040s.