Tom Garland

9.1

Decant and pour. A splendid dark purplish garnet color. On the nose: inviting aeromatics jump from the glass with dark cherry jam, graphite, herbaceous, vanilla oak, floral. Taste: blackberry/black cherry, crushed stone ,tar, spice, and a medium plus tannic kick me wine. Like to try again in a few years. — 5 months ago

with Brenda

Robert Harding

9.5

Funky and fruity. — 4 years ago

Vay John Blazina

9.2

Lovely dark fruit complex nose with a dark red color and a full body that is complex with a fairly long aftertaste. Big enough to stand up with a 2005 Stags Leap Fay Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. — 6 years ago

Jacquelyn Alvarado

9.0

Pairs excellent with bolognese and steak. Excellent! — 6 months ago

John W

9.6

I’ll stand by my June 24, 2021 rating. Consistently great. — 4 years ago

Cathy Corison

Owner/Winemaker Corison Winery

9.3

Maraschino cherries. Nicely tannic. Leather. Delicious. — 6 years ago

with Grace and William

Jay Kline

9.2

Last night, a buddy of mine who’s a Disabled Veteran and Registered Architect, announced that he was assuming control of a SDVOSB Architecture firm. He had spent the better part of a year of trying to reach a purchase agreement. So it was an evening of celebration. He’s been a Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars fan for some time and he planned to pull the cork on a few bottles. We had a couple of rando bottles too but all were California Cabernet Sauvignon. I brought this bottle. It was part of my most recent delivery from Seavey and I was curious to try it out. Well...it was clearly infanticide. This was reductive at first and most of that blew off after about fifteen minutes. This was just so wound up. Delicious, fresh and almost crunchy fruit with a lot of structure. This was very bright compared to the Heart of Fay that preceded and just fell a touch short due to it being somewhat reticent. That being said, cellar time will be very kind to these and I would imagine this will show better down the road or with a lot of air, which this didn’t get. — 6 years ago

Ganesh

9.7

Worth the aging — 6 months ago

Stu

9.3

Heaps better than the other one — 3 years ago

Ian Hamel

9.4

2020/5/24 with grilled ribeye, eringi with fennel, tarragon and chives, whitebait aglio olio and radicchio salad. This had a wonderful balance of taut structure and fruit intensity, while still remaining light and translucent. That, with the red fruit and spice nose, gave it an almost Burgundian feel - it was also quite distinct from the other Fay bottles. — 5 years ago