Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars and Chateau Montelena | The Judgment of Paris: An Enduring Legacy

Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars and Chateau Montelena | The Judgment of Paris: An Enduring Legacy

WINE OFFERINGS

• 1 x 750ml (Standard) 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay
• 1 x 750ml (Standard) 1973 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon
• 1 x 3L (Double Magnum) 2014, 2016 and 2019 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay, Napa Valley
• 1 x 3L (Double Magnum) 1999, 2012 and 2015 Chateau Montelena Estate Cabernet Sauvignon, Calistoga
• 1 x 3L (Double Magnum) 1996, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2023 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon, Stag’s Leap District
• 60 x 750ml (Standard) 2025 Chateau Montelena Cabernet Sauvignon
• 60 x 750ml (Standard) 2025 Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon

NAPA VALLEY

• 2-nights' luxury accommodations for 2 couples
• 2-days ground transportation
• Private estate access with behind-the-scenes tour and lunch for 2 couples at each winery
• Private consultation with each winemaker to craft custom, bespoke Cabernet Sauvignon
• One-year wine club memberships at each winery: Chateau Montelena Estate Membership and Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars Luxe VI Membership

To take place on a mutually agreeable date. Airfare not included.

In 1976, the world tasted history.

At the legendary Judgment of Paris, Napa Valley rose from a promising vinous frontier to a global force. In a blind tasting that stunned the French establishment, two California wines outscored the most revered bottles of Bordeaux and Burgundy. The shockwaves reshaped the hierarchy of fine wine and forever elevated Napa Valley onto the world stage.

Now, fifty years later, you are invited not simply to remember that moment, but to own it, extend it and define its future.

This unprecedented lot commemorates the 50th anniversary with two of the rarest and most culturally significant wines ever produced: the 1973 Chardonnay from Chateau Montelena and the 1973 S.L.V. Cabernet Sauvignon from Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars. These are not merely bottles; they are artifacts of triumph. The only two American wines preserved in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Icons of craftsmanship. Symbols of a region’s audacity. With only a handful of bottles remaining worldwide, their rarity is absolute.

Yet this offering does not end with history — it accelerates into creation.

In 2027, you will collaborate directly with Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars winemaker Marcus Notaro and Chateau Montelena winemaker Matt Crafton in private consultations to craft two bespoke Cabernet Sauvignons tailored precisely to your palate. The result: 60 bottles from each estate, created exclusively for you — a personal chapter added to Napa Valley’s enduring narrative.

Your immersion continues with two days of private estate access for four guests. Behind-the-scenes tours. Curated library tastings. Intimate lunches with the estates’ leadership. You will taste your custom blends at their earliest stage — experiencing the alchemy of terroir, intuition, and legacy in real time.

Augmented by rare 3-liter celebratory vintages, one-year wine club memberships at both estates, luxury accommodations, and private ground transportation; this is more than an acquisition.

It is stewardship.

It is authorship.

It is your place in the lineage of Napa Valley’s greatest story.