Fling Tempranillo 2026

Fling Tempranillo: A Spanish Aristocrat with Napa Mountain Soul.

Tempranillo is the noble red grape of Spain's Rioja, celebrated for its vibrant aromatics, spicy red fruit and graceful complexity. But rather than imitate Rioja, we took its greatest principles—balance, freshness, fine tannins and age-worthy elegance—and gave them a distinctly Napa mountain home.

The result is something quite special.

Our Stagecoach Vineyard Tempranillo delivers Rioja elegance with Napa mountain intensity. This is less Napa blockbuster and more Spanish aristocrat: beautifully restrained fruit, savory complexity, mountain-grown tannins and vibrant acidity that keeps every sip alive and intriguing.

Assuredly, this is Napa mountain Tempranillo—not a California imitation of Rioja. It is a wine with its own sense of place, combining the noble character of Spain's great red with the dramatic elevation, volcanic soils and intensity of Stagecoach Vineyard.

A little Spain. A lot of Stagecoach. Entirely unforgettable.

Fling is a very distinctive wine: dark, savory, mineral-driven Tempranillo with blackberry, black plum, tobacco, leather, spice and mountain tannin, rather than the lighter, more rustic profile often associated with Spanish Tempranillo.

Stagecoach Tempranillo is most definitely a Napa mountain Tempranillo rather than a California imitation of Rioja.

The combination of high elevation, volcanic rock, intense sunlight and cool nights gives the grape the opportunity to develop substantial color and concentration while retaining acidity. Atlas Peak's volcanic soils are also exceptionally well drained.

Tempranillo from Stagecoach Vineyard on Atlas Peak, is a particularly interesting and relatively rare Napa expression of the grape.

Sourced from a single block planted to a Ribera del Duero clone at about 1,500 feet, with rocky volcanic soils and substantial diurnal temperature variation, this Atlas Peak vineyard is one of the warmer areas of Stagecoach, producing fruit with ripe concentration, blue-dark fruit and softer tannins.

Aged for 11 months in French oak barrels providing depth and complexity to the wine while adding only subtle oak notes on the palate.
Fermented in an open-top, temperature-controlled stainless steel tank, then transferred to French Oak barrels for 11 months.
Color Red
Vintage 2026
Style Red Rioja
Appellation Atlas Peak, Napa Valley
Varietal Tempranillo
Date Bottled 17th Jul 2028
Drinkable 2028 - 2045
Alcohol 14.50%
Bottle Size 750ml

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