Warren Winiarski was an American Napa Valley winemaker and the founder and proprietor of Stag's Leap Wine Cellars.
16 Facts About Warren Winiarski
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In 1976, Warren Winiarski won the Judgment of Paris blind tasting for his 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Warren Winiarski oversaw the Winiarski Family Foundation, which supports educational and charitable causes, in addition to teaching courses at the St John's College Summer Classics program in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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In 2017, Winiarski was inducted into the 11th class of the California Hall of Fame by Governor Edmund G Brown Jr.
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Warren Winiarski was born to Stephen and Lottie Winiarski on October 22,1928, in a large Polish section of Chicago, Illinois.
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Warren Winiarski's parents owned a livery business in Chicago and his father made honey wine, fruit-flavored, and dandelion wine at home which the family drank on special occasions.
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Warren Winiarski studied the western classics curriculum at St John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, graduating in 1952; Winiarski then began his graduate work at the University of Chicago in political theory with Leo Strauss.
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Warren Winiarski lectured in the Basic Program of Liberal Education at the University of Chicago while working on his Ph.
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In 1968, Warren Winiarski left Robert Mondavi Winery to make wine in Colorado at Ivancie Cellars.
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Warren Winiarski removed the prune, cherry, and walnuts trees on the property and planted Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.
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In 1973 Warren Winiarski built a winery near the vineyard and founded Stag's Leap Wine Cellars, and the next year, 1974, he introduced a reserve line, Cask 23.
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In 1976, Warren Winiarski won the Judgement of Paris blind tasting for his 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon.
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Warren Winiarski created and taught a seminar at the Red, White and American symposium at the Smithsonian Institution on the 20th Anniversary of the Judgment of Paris.
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Warren Winiarski owned and operated Arcadia Vineyards, in the Coombsville AVA of Napa Valley which produces Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Merlot.
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In June 2018, Warren Winiarski donated $3.3 million to build the world's most comprehensive collection of wine writers work within the library at the University of California, Davis.
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Warren Winiarski was among the original promoters of the Napa Ag Preserve passed in 1968, Measure J in 1990 and its extension Measure P in 2008, Measure I in 2006, Measure Z 2017 and Measure C in 2018.