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2006 Shafer Vineyards Relentless
- Napa Valley, USA
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- Avg Price (ex-tax)
- $ 151 / 750ml
- Red - Rich and Intense
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Wine Spectator Wine of the Year 2012.
Critic tasting note: "Another outstanding Relentless from Shafer. As usual, the wine is massively constructed and extraordinarily rich and deep in flavor, offering waves of grilled blackberries and cherries, red currants, licorice, bacon, cola, black pepper and other spices. The tannins are very big, but completely ripe and sweet. Mainly Syrah, withPetite Sirah, this wine will age, but it's really best now with hearty foods, like short ribs or lamb." - 94/100, Wine Enthusiast
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Highlights
- From Napa Valley, USA
- Avg. Price (ex-tax) $ 151 / 750ml
- Red Wine – Rich and Intense
- Syrah
- Pairs well with Lamb
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
- Relentless is a blend of Syrah and Petite Sirah that originates in a rugged, sloping vineyard planted in the chaparral foothills of the Vaca Mountains, along Napa Valley’s drier, cooler southeast corridor. The soul of the wine, though, comes from its namesake, our longtime winemaker, Elias Fernandez, who the Shafer family honors with this proprietary blend for his relentless pursuit of quality.
- Drinking Window
- 2008-2023
- Alcohol ABV
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15.8%
- Sweetness
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Dry
- Blend
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Syrah & Petite Sirah (Durif)
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Oaked
- Oak Type
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French
- Winemaker
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Elias Fernandez
- Ownership
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Shafer family
- Closure Type
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Cork
- Vineyard Notes
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A small ridgetop site and a foothills site along the Vaca Mountains just south of Stags Leap District.
- Ageing
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30 months in 100% new 60-gallon French oak barrels (Allier & Tronçais).
About the Wine
Suggested Dishes to Pair With This Wine
- Meat pastilla Starter Course
- Contains: pistachio, cinnamon
- Moroccan
- Beef with black bean sauce Main Course
- Chinese
- Lamb couscous Main Course
- Contains: ras el hanout
- Moroccan
- Chicken tagine Main Course
- Contains: ras el hanout
- Moroccan
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User Ratings
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Vintage quality: Good
Current condition: Ready to drink
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