Community Tasting Note

• charleshetzel Likes this wine: 97 points

  February 23, 2014 - Enjoyed at Next Restaurant - Chicago Steakhouse Menu
  Decanted over 3.5 hours before enjoying. This is everything you want a Shafer Hillside Select to be. When opened had a very in depth, complex aroma of deep dark cherry fruit, casis, nose of tobacco, leather with a hint of chocolate and coffee. Really enjoyed the cedary nose with just a hint of oak, black cherry. The dark fruit was present on the initial palate, just a few playful tannins and great legs and structure to the wine. This wine is in pefect harmony between sweetness and tannins with enough
  acidity left to keep for another 10 to 12 years. It is drinking very well now and was a great companion to the flannery dry aged ribeye served at Next.

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