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| Community Tasting Notes (average 92.3 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 9 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by tcarter on 4/7/2018 & rated 94 points: Still holding up beautifully. Really showing well right now. Classic old school Napa cab flavors. (1991 views) | | | Tasted by Baron Slick on 3/16/2014 & rated 92 points: Ruby core, bricking at the edges. Intense, savory, Bing cherry bouquet of leather, pencil lead, and cinnamon bark. The fully integrated palate flaunted, a smooth texture, soft tannins, black and red fruit, balsamic vinegar, umami, and mocha dust on the long finish. This was well-balanced and delicious. (3637 views) | | | Tasted by jpwines on 12/31/2012 & rated 92 points: This wine still has room to go. no bricking. soft, lt. tannins with good fruit. We thoroughly enjoyed it. (3742 views) | | | Tasted by vinolovers on 5/28/2012 & rated 95 points: A nice dark garnet coloring; Did not decant. Very smooth with no tannins. Dried fruit, particularly blueberry along with some tea, chocolate and bit of white peppe. Amazingly at its peak 22 years laterwith a measly 13.2 % alcohol!!! Last bottle. (4577 views) | | | Tasted by vinolovers on 9/10/2010 & rated 95 points: Opened about 30 mintues before serving but did not decant. A nice dark garnet coloring in the glass. A muted nose that never opened much. While lacking much in the way a fruit, a bit of dried blueberry, but lots of mature cab flavors: chocloate, leather,tea and white pepper in an extremely smooth wine. Amazingly, probably still at it's peak. (86% Cab. Sauv.; 8% Cab Franc; 6% merlot). A perfect example for those who question the longevity of California cabs. (5108 views) | | | Tasted by cabdrinker on 7/4/2009 & rated 87 points: Still alive and kicking... Cork exploded as I attempted to remove, had to push down a good 50% of it into the bottle. Color showed the bricking on the outer edge of a gracefully aged wine. Even though the bottling shows 8% cab franc, it really showed it's colors with strawberry, cherry, bell pepper, violet on the nose. Mouthfeel was a little thin but came with expressive cherry, smoke, some earth tones and a little more dried herbs. Finish had no tannins to speak of but a hint of acidity and lasted a good 15 - 20 seconds. (2687 views) | | | Tasted by flashvictor on 12/11/2007: Beautiful complex nose of cherry, currant, and cedar but unfortunately that is all this bottle had to gice. There was no fruit left on the palate only oak and acid. Waited to long to drink this one. (4163 views) | | | Tasted by PaulH on 12/3/2003 & rated 91 points: Dinner with Julien at Fringale. On opening, it had a heady and definate peppery nose, almost like a syrah. The taste, however, was classic cabernet. Color was brick red without any lightening at the edge. Early on, the tannins seemed a bit astringent and drying, but as the night wore on, they became softer and integrated. The nose was consistent and a just a bit closed. This ended up tasting very much like a left bank Bordeaux from 1990. The finish was a bit abbreviated, but satisfying. This bottle would have lasted for another five to eight years. Certainly a great bargain for the $14.77 that I paid for it. (5369 views) | | | Tasted by bestdamncab on 7/31/1993 & rated 92 points: 1984, 1987, and 1990 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignons (Hi-Time Wine Cellars, Costa Mesa, Ca.): Pepper nose, lovely taste, opened fruit forward, nice big body Cabernet, long finish. (423 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)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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