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2010 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon
- Stags Leap District, USA
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- Avg Price (ex-tax)
- $ 443 / 750ml
- Red - Bold and Structured
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Critic tasting note: "Massive, powerful, concentrated and loaded to the top with layers of ripe, dark berries, jam, smoke, espresso, vanilla and licorice. Still primary, it is not ready for prime time drinking yet, as everything still needs to come together. 96 Points" - 96/100, Jeff Leve, The Wine Cellar Insider
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- From Stags Leap District, USA
- Avg. Price (ex-tax) $ 443 / 750ml
- Red Wine – Bold and Structured
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Pairs well with Beef and Venison
Winery
Shafer Vineyards is a family-owned wine producer in the Stags Leap District of the Napa Valley. It is particularly known for its Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon, regarded as one of the very finest wines in California. With t...
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- Region or Appellation
- Producer Notes
- Hillside Select is a wine of a place, sourced from carefully selected blocks of Stags Leap District hillside vineyards.These grapes are small and deeply colored, with concentrated flavors enhanced by meticulous winemaking and extensive aging in French oak barrels. Hillside Select consistently expresses the voluptuous fruit, rich flavors, and velvety texture that characterize grapes grown in this renown AVA.
- Drinking Window
- 2017-2064
- Alcohol ABV
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15.5%
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Dry
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100% Cabernet Sauvignon
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Oaked
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French
- Winemaker
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Elias Fernandez
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Cork
- Vineyard Notes
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100% hillside vineyards in Stags Leap District including Shafer’s estate vineyard blocks Sunspot John’s Upper 7, Venado Ilegal, and Firebreak
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32 months in 100% new 60-gallon French oak barrels (Allier and Tronçais)
- Producer Tasting Notes
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Beautiful color, high-toned, elegant aromas and refined flavors of dark cherry, cassis, espresso, sweet vanilla and wet earth with enticing rose petal, cranberry, blueberry, oregano and sage. Smooth-textured tannins and a persistent finish.
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About the Wine
Suggested Dishes to Pair With This Wine
- Meat pastilla Starter Course
- Contains: pistachio, cinnamon
- Moroccan
- Tablas de Monterrey Main Course
- Beef ribs with lemon and beer
- Contains: short rib
- Mexican
- Grain fed rib Main Course
- Contains: beef rib
- French
- Shinco di agnello Main Course
- Slow roast lamb shanks
- Italian
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Vintage quality: Excellent
Current condition: Ready to drink, will keep
The 2010 vintage for California was exceptionally good.
A cold damp spring delayed both budburst and flowering and the growing season continued down a chilly vein with conditions reportedly some of the coolest on record. The damp meant producers had to be...
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