Hawk Crest?

Does anyone know if they're still in existence? I went looking for some the other day after remembering how I used to enjoy them as a very affordable offering from Stag's Leap's compared to their Napa bottles years ago, but no one near me stocks it. My local shop was able to order me a bottle, but the most recent vintage they could find was a 2008. Did SL sell them off or something?

CT lists lots (100 or so) of bottles up to 2008, but then couple bottles of '09 and '11 (probable mistakes).

2007 was when Stag's Leap was sold to a partnership of Antinori and Ste. Michelle. Assume they got rid of 2nd label. No mention on their website. Funnily, in history, they never mention Warren Winiarski , only "the founder."

Where's Tom Hill when you need him?

CT lists lots (100 or so) of bottles up to 2008, but then couple bottles of '09 and '11 (probable mistakes).

2007 was when Stag's Leap was sold to a partnership of Antinori and Ste. Michelle. Assume they got rid of 2nd label. No mention on their website. Funnily, in history, they never mention Warren Winiarski , only "the founder."

Where's Tom Hill when you need him?

Yeah. Where in Sam Hill IS Tom Hill??

(Wonder how many times he's heard that before )

CT lists lots (100 or so) of bottles up to 2008, but then couple bottles of '09 and '11 (probable mistakes).

2007 was when Stag's Leap was sold to a partnership of Antinori and Ste. Michelle. Assume they got rid of 2nd label. No mention on their website. Funnily, in history, they never mention Warren Winiarski , only "the founder."

Where's Tom Hill when you need him?

Yeah. Where in Sam Hill IS Tom Hill??

(Wonder how many times he's heard that before )

Yup....Tom....I've heard that one a lot over the yrs.

I be here. Just don't have any information to provide. I remember when Hawk'sCrest was started.
The wines, much like Stag'sLeap (egad....that's NapaVlly Cabernet...one of the World's most boring wines),
were nothing that ever much excited me. So I hadn't even noticed that they were gone. But when Stag'sLeap
(did I get the apostrophe in the right place?) was sold, I assume that the partnership wanted to refocus on their
core mission and escape the commodity market. So that makes sense for its disappearance. No big loss IMHO.
Tom

I be here. Just don't have any information to provide. I remember when Hawk'sCrest was started.
The wines, much like Stag'sLeap (egad....that's NapaVlly Cabernet...one of the World's most boring wines),
were nothing that ever much excited me. So I hadn't even noticed that they were gone. But when Stag'sLeap
(did I get the apostrophe in the right place?) was sold, I assume that the partnership wanted to refocus on their
core mission and escape the commodity market. So that makes sense for its disappearance. No big loss IMHO.
Tom

Thanks Tom. I appreciate the info, and your dismissive contempt for my fond childhood memory. *sob*.

I’m not so sure if the “Hawk Crest” label has totally disappeared. It might not be distributed as widely as it once was.

Salute

[Robin Garr]

I’m not so sure if the “Hawk Crest” label has totally disappeared. It might not be distributed as widely as it once was.

Looking over Wine-Searcher, quite a few vendors still list Hawk Crest wines, but it appears that production on the reds must have halted after the 2008 vintage and whites after the 2010.
https://www.wine-searcher.com/find/hawk ... g_site=WLP

(There are some hits on later vintages, but they're broken, or click through to other cheap wines like Bearitage rather than Hawk Crest - probably a matter of shops reusing old inventory codes.)