Community Tasting Notes 11

• Olson’s Wine Room 2005 Likes this wine: 95 points

  March 13, 2024 - Full bodied, dry round, plum and cherry, dark chocolate. Smooth from the first sip. Only needed 15 minutes to open up.

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• Lion's Share Likes this wine: 91 points

  January 12, 2024 - Dark aromas dominate the nose, tar, leather, black licorice, and black olives. The palate is rich and smooth with blackberries and licorice predominating. The tar and licorice follow on with rounded tannins to a long finish. It’s very bold, maybe too bold, and just a touch on the hot side. Decanted for two hours before serving.

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• Mathijs81 Likes this wine: 98 points

  January 1, 2024 - Upon feedback, gave this two hours in decanter.
  It immediately filled the kitchen with spicy aromatics.
  
  A tad shy in nose, full on soft and velvet in mouth.
  Even developed during the evening and survived 2nd day.
  
  High alcohol, but it’s tempered by the smooth silky feeling in mouth.
  
  Stunning wine … easy 98 for me !
  
  Mathijs

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• rhg Likes this wine: 94 points

  August 13, 2023 - Well balanced tannins. Purple fruits. Blue fruit. Violets.

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• chchchch__ Likes this wine: 94 points

  May 5, 2023 - Got knocked down into rocks today by a wave in Big Sur cove. In the second or two of panic, time slowed a bit as they say. Or maybe the time-slowing is an artifact of reflection after survival. In either case I'll remember it this way. Hearing the rush and froth of water, feeling the cold and the somehow always-unexpected force of water, I considered my condition as my last moment - time slowed and I reflected: really it was good, my life of toil and frustration. Because the toil and frustration is interrupted occasionally, but enough, more than enough if I'm honest, by pure consumption of life's pleasures: great wine like this bottle of Shaffer from last night; a run through a forest of redwoods along a river; conversations frivolous, cancellable, dark, light, and drunk with a best friend. So if I was swept out to the cold and violent Pacific that moment, well, I had it pretty good.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2018
• Type Red
• Producer Shafer
• Varietal Syrah Blend
• Designation Relentless
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Codes 441352700024, 5020447177573

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• Pending Delivery 18 (1%)
• In Cellars 1,634 (80%)
• Consumed 382 (19%)

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