Sometimes, expensive wines are worth the money. We have always said that price alone is no indication of quality and that price and value are different things. We have tasted many wines under $20 that were thoughtful, lovely and true. We have also tried many astonishingly expensive wines that tasted like anvils. Those often came in heavy bottles with elegant labels and higher alcohol than we would like. We thought that, in a way, their high price alone probably gave them cachet with some people.
stag's leap wine cellars
November 29, 2024
March 18, 2016What Did The Judgment of Paris Mean to Warren Winiarski? ‘I Had More Responsibility to the Fruit’
September 01, 2015If Winiarski hadn't tasted Fay's homemade wine -- and been able to purchase the adjoining property -- Chateau Mouton-Rothschild would have won the Judgment of Paris.
May 16, 2014Perhaps, aside from his long tenure at Hanzell Vineyards, he will be remembered most for helping found Stag's Leap Wine Cellars and putting it in a position to make a name for itself at the famed 1976 blind taste testing that deemed Napa Valley wines as better than France's.
