Growing grapes and making wine in the Stags Leap District of the
Napa Valley is the vinous equivalent of being granted a license to
print money.
It’s not quite that simple, of course, but nobody would say that
Stags Leap is a challenging place to farm exceptional grapes.
Obvioisly, Mother Nature gets the final word each harvest season, but
it’s no mere coincidence that many of California’s greatest wines come
from this area – the home of Chimney Rock Winery.
The district’s name is derived from the legend of a nimble stag,
said to have escaped a hunter by making a fantastic leap from one of the…