Four Doors Stags Leap spotlight
The market on this bottle
Wine-Searcher tracks this 2022 Four Doors Cabernet Sauvignon Stags Leap District across the open market. Their published U.S. low is $55.47 and the average is $55.47. Our slash is $56.00.
2022 Four Doors Cabernet Sauvignon Stags Leap District, USA
James Regusci Jr.'s Block 1 Cabernet, Stags Leap fruit from the family ranch, a 2022 you can open at fifty-six dollars.
The 2022 Four Doors is 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon from Regusci Block 1 in Stags Leap District: black cherry, blackberry, violet, graphite, and a polished close, now $56.
The label is new. The block is not
Four Doors is James Regusci Jr. opening his own door as a fourth-generation Napa farmer. The fruit is 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon from Block 1 on his father's Regusci estate in Stags Leap District. Anne Sewell Briggs MW-track, DipWSET, 94: violets, black cherry, blackberry, cassis, graphite minerality, black tea, a long polished finish. This is the bottle that argues a new label can still be a named Stags Leap block.
The house
The four doors on the label are four generations of Regusci farming. James Jr. launched Four Doors in 2020 after Oregon State and the family vineyard-management team.
The wine
100% Cabernet Sauvignon from Block 1. Stags Leap District. Iron fist in a velvet glove is the district brief, not a slogan pasted on.
The read
Anne Sewell Briggs DipWSET 94. Violets, black fruit, graphite, tea, structured tannin, a long polished finish.
The drinker
Decant 30 to 60 minutes. Serve 60 to 65 F. Pan-seared steak or braised short ribs.
Violet, black cherry, then graphite
Black cherry, blackberry, plum, and cassis sit on volcanic minerality. Savory spice, dried tea, baking spice, and a polished close are the district talking.
A Napa year of heat and a small district that still favors Cabernet with polish. Block 1 is the map. 100 percent Cabernet is the composition. The 2022 carries that terrain with poise rather than spectacle.
Violet, black cherry, blackberry, black plum, cassis, savory spice.
Fine, seamless tannin, volcanic minerality, 100% Cabernet from Block 1.
Long, polished, tea and baking spice. Decant 30 to 60 minutes. Serve 60 to 65 F.
One block, one grape, one district
The technical story is direct: Regusci Block 1, Stags Leap District, 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon. James Regusci Jr. bottles fruit from the family ranch rather than buying a story. Volcanic soils in this small AVA drive vines deep and keep vigor in check. The result is structure with refinement, a mineral spine under concentrated dark fruit.
No secondary sourcing. The label is Four Doors. The vineyard is dad's Block 1. That is the proof.
Decant 30 to 60 minutes. Serve 60 to 65 F. Steak or a red-wine braise.
Four doors, four generations, one Stags Leap address
Angelo, Jim, James Jr.: the ranch came first. The label came in 2020.
James Regusci Jr. grew up on the family ranch, took agricultural sciences at Oregon State, worked horticulture at The French Laundry, and joined Regusci Vineyard Management in 2019.
Four Doors launched in 2020. The four doors are the four generations. The wine is Block 1 Cabernet from Stags Leap District.
This is not a second-label leftover. It is a son bottling a named block from his father's estate.
Give Block 1 the steakhouse table
Stags Leap Cabernet wants char and a slow braise. Black fruit, graphite, and fine tannin have a place to land.
Two plates. One pan-seared steak. One red-wine short rib. Both can take Block 1 Cabernet.
Decant 30 to 60 minutes. Serve 60 to 65 F. Air draws violet and graphite through the dark fruit.
Perfect Pan-Seared Steaks
A hard crust and pan juices. Stags Leap Cabernet's classic landing.
Why it works: Beef fat softens tannin while char pulls black cherry, violet, and graphite forward.
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Red Wine-Braised Short Ribs
A slow braise for cassis, tea, and volcanic minerality.
Why it works: Collagen and reduction meet concentrated dark fruit while the wine's structure stays precise.
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James Regusci Jr., Regusci Block 1, 100 percent Cabernet. Fifty-six dollars.
Put it in the cart. This is Four Doors on a named Stags Leap block, not a rented story.
