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Stagshollow

Tasting note

A barrel sample drawn straight from Barrel 47 in early April 2026 — the same wine as Stagshollow 2024 Block 7 Cabernet, but eighteen months out from bottling. The fruit is still loud, the tannin is still raw, the oak has not integrated.

Chemistry at a glance

Alcohol

14.8%

pH

3.70

Residual sugar

1.3 g/L

Blend: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon

From the barrel

Barrel 47

This wine isn’t finished. We pull a small sample from the barrel before bottling so you can taste the conversation a winemaker is having with the vintage in real time.

Aging since
Oct 2024
Expected bottling
Dec 2026
Projected release
Mar 2027

The producer

Stagshollow

A family estate on the eastern slope of Howell Mountain, dry-farmed since 1978. Five hundred cases a year, every bottle aged in a converted cattle barn.

Dry-farmed since 1978, made in a converted cattle barn.

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