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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.3 pts. and median of 92 pts. in 8 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by JRockEsq on 1/26/2024 & rated 91 points: Method: pop and pour; Grassl 1855; lightly chilled
Look: medium garnet, with just about no bricking
Nose: cedar/cigar box, mint/menthol, pencil shaving, cherry, dry dirt
Palate: bing cherry, dried herbs; long- finish menthol, pencil shavings, black pepper, dried herbs, light dry leather; dry; medium body; high- chewy, somewhat drying tannins; medium+ acidity
Overall thoughts: Great, expressive classical Cab/Left Bank nose, and a good amount of complexity on the nose and palate (especially the finish). Still very structured and the tannins are surprisingly still a bit overbearing for me (or stronger than I prefer). This is really asking for a steak. Good amount of life left. Great wine! (136 views) | | | Tasted by AlyssaRock12 on 1/26/2024 & rated 92 points: Nose: cherry, wet dirt, bramble, cigar box, prune, mint/menthol
Palate: black cherry, blackberry, cigar box, pencil shavings, flint, dried herb; medium finish of black pepper, black cherry, flint, dried dirt; medium tannins, kind of chalky; medium + body, smooth; medium acid
Overall: this vintage never disappoints with Napa Cabs! Still singing, though the tannins are a bit drying. Otherwise it’s still got great flavor and structure. (151 views) | | | Tasted by korkd on 9/26/2020 & rated 93 points: Interesting wine, came out of the bottle the color of rust with little fruit. With a couple of hours of air it seemed to get more and more youthful, the color reverting to ruby and a fair amount of leathery fruit. Pleasant (490 views) | | | Tasted by Marcel74 on 3/22/2018 & rated 94 points: Cedary on the nose, warm and ripe on the palate, complex - really really good tonight (1330 views) | | | Tasted by WestUAg on 1/30/2018 & rated 82 points: Not drinkable.... (1516 views) | | | Tasted by LESTERTHEINVESTOR on 2/20/2016: Used for the 25th Anniversary party as the toast. (2006 views) | | | Tasted by astroman on 7/4/2013: Independence Day celebration (Park Palace): Tobacco finish. (2574 views) | | | Tasted by John McCabe on 6/15/2012 & rated 92 points: Very nice dark chocolate tones, good concentration and finish. (2598 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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