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Community Tasting Notes (18) Avg Score: 94.3 points

  • From an in-neck bottle, this was quite consistent with previous notes. Slightly overripe but just on the good side of that. Incredible denisty and structure, this is just so fun to drink

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  • Explosive aromatics, malt, coca-cola, incredibly intense yet oh so elegant! A masterpiece!

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  • Richter Pre-Gaming Night (w/ some new world icons): Amazing wine, much better than a bottle a few months ago. Loads of complexity, super elegant, perfectly balanced. If the nose would have been as good as the palate, this could have been a 100pts wine. So it is 97+ pts.

    TN: Fine, dark fruited, somkey, fresh herbal and minerality driven nose. Some faint earthy and tobacco notes too. On the palate…. Wow. Intense, deep aromatics with fine fresh pure strawberry, darker cassis notes, herbs and minerality, malty notes, some coffee notes. So soft and round, so elegant, yet full of tension. Perfect balance. Long and superb finish.

    Decanting: 1-2 hours should be sufficient.

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  • Prelude to the annual Magnum Rarities Tasting in Zurich. The first vintage for this wine from Shafer. Reported harvested pretty overripe. 45 years later this shows very distinct green aromatics of menthol, mint and eucalyptus which provide for a fresh and well defined frame. A mostly red currant fruit with a precise mineral layer that adds linearity. The palate is juicy, fresh, harmonious and still boasts impressive breadth.

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  • Just an amazing bottle of this wine. Mint, eucalyptus, dark fruit, super dark plums, liquid butter, this is incredibly dense, rich, very long and stunningly opulent. MAGIC!

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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    Vertical Tasting of Shafer’s Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select (Jul 2016), 7/1/2016, (See more on Vinous...)

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