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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 10 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by AllRed on 9/11/2013 flawed bottle: Mildly corked. Shows some cocoa and red fruit aromas underneath the taint. Too bad. (3224 views) | | | Tasted by GalvezGuy on 10/9/2012 & rated 92 points: Hanging with dontime and pdhall (Sophia, Houston): Popped and poured. This is in its prime, deep rich nose of mocha, plums, tobacco, herbs. On the palate rich and full with black cherry, plum, dark chocolate, earth, leather, tobacco. Long finish with great grip. WOTN by a whisker over some pretty stiff competition. (3940 views) | | | Tasted by keithgg on 9/24/2012: Held up well.. (3629 views) | | | Tasted by jlimberg on 2/20/2011: Consistent with my previous note (4334 views) | | | Tasted by gutt22 on 10/19/2009: 13.5% alcohol. Third time we've had this and still showing beautifully. Excellent nose of herb-infused black fruit, with a delicate and compelling leafy tobacco note, as well as hints of chocolate. In the mouth, beautiful texture, just dancing across the palate with plenty of fruit and complexity. Lovely finish that isn't harsh at all, just pure and smooth. A- (4477 views) | | | Tasted by Renegade on 7/1/2007 & rated 91 points: This is a merlot with medium/heavy body and alcohol at a pleasing 13.5% It showed no signs of browning yet, the color is a dark ruby red. When first opened it gave off aromas of earth, white flowers and berry fruit. After about two hours, the nose changed to earth, spice, dried fruits and some herbal notes. The flavors at opening were of berries, cassis and pomegrante. After two hours it really changed to earth, tobacco, dark fruits and chocolate. It is really smooth and balanced right now. I am not sure if it will continue to develop more, but this wine should hold up until 2010, maybe longer. (2707 views) | | | Tasted by rothdog on 5/24/2007 & rated 90 points: Tasted at the winery. Still very good, but on it's last leg. Although inferior, showed very well when tasted next to the '93 Hillside Select. (2323 views) | | | Tasted by SimonG on 6/17/2001: Good colour, fruity, slightly liqourice nose with refined blackcurrants and mocha flavours. Hints of green wood or pistachios. Lovely elegant, slightly jammy palatte, good fruit, elegant new world, slight hints ofoak. Altogether fruitier feel than claret without a bouset new world feel. Good. (2506 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.MerlotMerlot is a dark blue–colored wine grape variety, that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines. The name Merlot is thought to be a diminutive of merle, the French name for the blackbird, probably a reference to the color of the grape. Its softness and "fleshiness", combined with its earlier ripening, makes Merlot a popular grape for blending with the sterner, later-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon, which tends to be higher in tannin.USAAmerican 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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