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Stag's Leap Cleans Up

After a decade of mediocre wines, a turnaround
Posted: Aug 22, 2012 10:30am ET

Stag's Leap Wine Cellars has cleaned up its cellar.

After nearly a decade of mediocre red wines, many flawed by the spoilage yeast brettanomyces, the owners of this once prominent Napa Valley winery have released the first vintage of what seem to be clean, complex Cabernets.

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