Stag's Leap Wine Cellars AVETA Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley (2023) Corporate named after Andrew and Marie's

named after Andrew and Marie's daughter and made only since 2015 as the family gets to know the site

Serve it as cold as you can

the lots are split: part ferments in oak

not so much that it buries the fruit

The Chardonnay is its only white

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars AVETA Sauvignon Blanc, Napa Valley (2023) Corporate named after Andrew and Marie'sStag'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