1996 Stags Leap Petite Syrah

[Thomas]

Nice wine and good notes IK.

Indicentally, "Produced and Bottled" by regulation means that the winery did indeed ferment and bottle the wine, and that the grapes could have come from the winery's property but did not necessarily have to. If the grapes are grown on the winery's property than "Estate Bottled" is the preferred designation, so when that designation is not selected, it is almost a cinch that not all the grapes were grown on the winery's property.

It's those "Vinted and Bottled or Cellared and Bottled" designations that are deceiving and generally don't mean much other than this producer put that together to create such a wine...