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2027 vintage · Crews enrolling

Stags Leap District Estate

Stags Leap District · Napa Valley, California · USA · from $600

The wines

3 wines enrolling in Stags Leap District.

Each is one lot, made in one vessel. The winemaker designs the style; the calls inside it are yours.

Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon

Stags Leap Cabernet Sauvignon

94% Cabernet Sauvignon · 6% Petit Verdot

A Stags Leap Cabernet is famed for silk over iron, with black cherry and cassis over violet and a graphite spine and supple, refined tannins.

black cherrycassisvioletgraphitesilky tannin
LightFull
Pairs with
filet mignon, rack of lamb, aged Gouda
Serve
Serve 17-18°C; decant 90 minutes for the silky-but-firm tannins.
Cellar
Approachable young; the elegant style ages 10-20 years.

$195/vine · 1.2 btl/vine

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Palisades Bordeaux Blend

Palisades Bordeaux Blend

78% Cabernet Sauvignon · 14% Merlot · 8% Cabernet Franc

A palisades Bordeaux blend is supple and perfumed, with dark plum and black cherry over cedar, cocoa, and violet and velvety tannins.

dark plumblack cherrycedarcocoaviolet
LightFull
Pairs with
roast beef, lamb chops, mushroom ragout
Serve
Serve 17-18°C; decant an hour for the polished blend.
Cellar
Plush young; rewards 8-15 years.

$160/vine · 1.3 btl/vine

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District Petit Verdot

District Petit Verdot

Petit Verdot

A district Petit Verdot is deeply colored and floral, with blackberry and violet over dark spice and graphite and a firm, structured tannin.

blackberryvioletdark spicegraphitefirm tannin
LightFull
Pairs with
grilled steak, venison, dark-chocolate desserts
Serve
Serve 17-18°C; decant an hour or more for the dense fruit.
Cellar
Tannic young; holds 8-15 years.

$120/vine · 1.4 btl/vine

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What you receive

A year of the vintage, in your hands.

Samples all season

01

Samples all season

Verijuice, post-ferment, barrel, and finished wine — shipped as the vintage takes shape.

A vote at every fork

02

A vote at every fork

Pick date, oak, and where the blend lands. The winemaker lays out the options; you choose.

Watch it live

03

Watch it live

Livestream access to harvest at dawn, the cellar, and bottling day, from anywhere.

Your bottles at release

04

Your bottles at release

Allocated pro-rata to your vines, with your Crew's name on the back label.

Vine to bottle

You’re there for the whole year.

We farm the vineyard every month of it. The filled stops are where a call comes to you: in a Crew you vote on it with the other members; on a whole-block lease it’s yours alone.

  1. Jan

    Dormant pruning

    Dormant pruning

    Cane counts set the size of the crop.

  2. Feb

    Cane tying

    Cane tying

  3. Mar

    Bud break

    Bud break

  4. Apr

    Shoots grow

    Shoots grow

  5. May

    Flowering

    Flowering

  6. Jun

    Fruit set

    Fruit set

  7. Jul

    Canopy

    Canopy

  8. Aug

    Véraison

    Véraison

    A verijuice sample ships to you.

  9. Sep

    Harvest

    Harvest

    Your call · Pick date

    The winemaker brings the ripeness numbers and the forecast. Pick now, or wait.

  10. Oct

    Cap punch

    Cap punch

    A post-ferment sample ships to you. On a whole-block lease, fermentation is your call too.

  11. Nov

    Barrel down

    Barrel down

    Your call · Oak

    How much new wood, and how long the wine spends in barrel.

  12. Dec

    Barrel samples

    Barrel samples

    A barrel sample ships to you.

  13. Then

    Blend & bottle

    Blend & bottle

    Your call · The blend

    Where the final wine lands inside the winemaker's range — then bottling day.

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The place

Why the wine tastes like Stags Leap District.

Region
Stags Leap District, Napa Valley, California, USA
Soil
Volcanic gravelly loam and rocky alluvium beneath the basalt palisades
Climate
Warm afternoons trapped against the palisades, cooled hard by bay air at night
Elevation
60–180 m
Wines enrolling
3 Crew lots
Stags Leap District, Napa Valley, California, USA

Follow the season

The Stags Leap District growing year, by the numbers.

Weather is live and real, updated hourly. The season curve is typical for this region’s latitude and climate, replaced by your Crew’s readings once farming begins.

Hemisphere

Right now

Harvest

Target ripeness

BarrelLogic · vintage feed
Example
  • Winter pruning underway — cane counts set for the 2027 vintage

    6h ago

  • Cover crop sown between the rows to feed the soil

    2 days ago

  • Soil samples sent for analysis ahead of bud break

    4 days ago

  • Crew forming for the 2027 vintage — first calls go out soon

    5 days ago

  • Vines dormant; buds healthy after the cold snap

    1 week ago

Example activity. Your Crew’s feed from Stags Leap District appears here once the vintage begins.

BarrelLogic

Season progress

Typical · Apr–Oct

Bud breakAprFloweringJunFruit setJulVéraisonAugHarvestSepDormantYou are here

Typical ripeness

Typical · véraison to harvest

12°18°24°~25°BrixVéraisonHarvest

Beyond the bottle

Your vintage, end to end.

Lease it here, follow and steer it in BarrelLogic, and taste the wider world at BarrelTaster. Three sites, one vintage.

  1. 01 · Lease it

    SplitVineyards

    Your own vineyard. Without the work.

    Your vines in Stags Leap District and the wine they make — a few by the vine, or the whole block.

    You're here
  2. 02 · Follow & decide it

    BarrelLogic

    The operating system for modern winemakers.

    Track your vintage from bud break to barrel — ripeness, the cellar, samples, and every winemaking vote — in the winery's operating system.

    Visit BarrelLogic
  3. 03 · Taste first

    BarrelTaster

    The tasting room of the world.

    Not ready to commit to a vintage? Taste finished wines from around the world first.

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Tell us what you'd want

Want something else from Stags Leap District?

The wines above are open now, by the vine or as a whole-block lease. If you'd rather buy finished bottles or visit, say so. When enough people ask, we take that demand to the region's wineries — and you'll be the first to hear what they say.

Buy with confidence

Owning a vintage, without the worry.

This listing opens with the 2027 vintage. Questions about delivery, timing, or how a season runs where you live? Ask before you commit.

Talk to us first
  • Guest checkout

    No account until you pay. We create it from your email so you can follow your vines.

  • Secure checkout

    Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card details.

  • We farm it

    Pruning, canopy, harvest and the cellar work are done for you. The winemaking calls come to you.

  • Real provenance

    Your bottles are tied to your vines, with your Crew's name on the back label. Lease the whole block and your own name goes on it.

  • A deposit, then the lease

    A $500 deposit holds a whole-block lease while the winery confirms the yearly price and the three-year terms with you. It's fully refundable from your account until you sign.

  • Ships within the US

    To most states. Outside the US: storage, pickup at the estate, or a US address.

Questions

What people ask first.

Every question, answered →

No — check out as a guest. We create your account after you pay so you can follow your vines and manage shipments.

Make the Stags Leap District vintage yours.

Buy a few vines or lease the whole block — no account needed until checkout. We farm it; you make the calls, and the wine is yours.

Choose your vines — from $600

Stags Leap District Estate

from $600