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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91 pts. and median of 88 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Maximilian7 on 3/18/2023 & rated 97 points: Bottle was in very good condition with an ullage at base neck, clean foil, cork came out easily with the Durand revealing about only 40% cork creep. The wine showed a clean nose from the beginning, PNP. Started to really shine around 30-45 minutes after opening. Great conditon, has evolved beautifully still showing a good amount of fresh currant fruit and desiccated cherries. Lots of layers of dried herbs and spices, tobacco leaves, oregano, tea leaves, ground cinnamon. Wonderfully complex. Palate demonstrated very refined silky tannins and a strong acidic backbone providing ample freshness to the wine. Unanimously voted WOTN amongst some other Cali Bordeaux blends and classed growth left bank Bordeaux. Hardly gets any better. Definitely performing at peak level now but looks like it can handle a few more years. (425 views) | | | Tasted by jennygoldberg on 2/21/2014: -pretty vibrant nose despite age, bright red cherry (with a hint of sourness) dried red currant/cranberry, decent body, med tannin, balanced
-drinkable but wouldn't cellar for much longer (4997 views) | | | Tasted by gutt22 on 7/12/2011: From magnum. An interesting and wonderful wine, though probably drinking at its peak maturity. Some bricking at the rim of the glass. Complex, lovely nose of wet earth, tobacco, pencil lead, spice, and mature fruit. In the mouth, a wine that changed as it was exposed to more air and with each sip. Fully resolved structure allowed the mouth feel to take on an almost feminine quality, with terrific balance and elegance. There was plenty of fruit, showing a touch of dried currant, and layers of earth and spice that grew deeper and more resonant with time. Strong finish. A really nice wine. A-/A (5940 views) | | | Tasted by Berno on 4/2/2011: Purchased on the cheap for me and my buddies b-day. (We're both '84's) 4/5 of the cork was saturated, but it came out in one piece. It was showing its age, clear brick red. In the nose, it had some funky, wet tobacco notes. There was some underlying cooked red fruit, tingling menthol and warm Earth. In the mouth, lots of acid, soft mouth coating tannins and a pretty long finish for a wine that's over the hill. Nonetheless, it was the first wine I've had from 1984, it was very special. NR (6568 views) | | | Tasted by rmcnees on 5/28/2010 & rated 88 points: Herbs, tobacco and subtle floral accent the black cherry fruit. Decanted for two hours - initially slightly astringent perhaps showing its age; after about two hours the fruit opened and revealed a bigger, more firm, more powerful wine. Deep purple, garnet color, starting to develop a miniscus ring. Tasted from magnum. A few years left. The second year for this label, the only year that Hillside Select wasn’t 100% Cabernet Sauvignon (7% Cabernet Franc added). Medium body, mature flavors. (6115 views) | | | Tasted by wconnolly on 5/28/2010 & rated 88 points: Deep garnet color, slight meniscus, some dark berry fruit, cigar box and chocolate. Needed to open over a two hour period but improved and continued to open. Very nice wine. Interesting comparison to '82 Brane-Cantenac which opened early and subsequently cloised down. Drank with great friends and family at Will and Kate's rehearsal dinner in homr of Kate's birth year. Consumed with Beth, Rick, Linda, Rusty, Ann Greg and Marcia. (6303 views) |
| Shafer Producer website
John Shafer and his family founded Shafer Vineyards, located in the Stags Leap District of the Napa Valley, in 1979. From the Shafers' first wine, a 1978 Cabernet Sauvignon,
their wines have won much acclaim. Today, the Shafers farm 200 acres of vineyard in the Stags Leap District, Carneros and Oak Knoll regions. Their flagship wine, Hillside Select,
is produced from selected blocks of the family's hillside vineyards and is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. They also produce Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay, Merlot, One Point Five
(Cabernet Sauvignon) and Relentless (a Syrah/Petite Sirah blend), which was named #1 wine of the year by Wine Spectator's "Top 100" of 2012.Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Stags Leap District Stags Leap District |
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