May 2026 Deadline — 15% Stags Leap Winery

Stags Leap Winery was established in 1970 and is regarded as a first-growth estate in the Napa Valley. It is best known for being the winery that won the Cabernet Sauvignon competition in the infamous Judgment of Paris of 1976. The company's founder first encountered Nathan Fay, whose picturesque vineyard was the first planting of Cabernet Sauvignon in what would later become the Stags Leap Winery, and which is located beneath the rocky promontory of the Stags Leap Palisades, so named due to the legend of the stag who successfully eluded hunters by leaping to freedom across the region's iconic peaks. Next to Nathan Fay's vineyard, the founder bought a 44-acre property in 1970 that was predominantly a prune orchard. He gave it the name Stag's Leap Vineyards and replanted it with Cabernet Sauvignon and a little amount of Merlot.