1999 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (80) Avg Score: 90.5 points

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  1/9/2024 - RTP Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Opened over the afternoon for evening dinner. We all drank it down. This was a wine that you swear you bought yesterday. Lost a little on the nose upon opening but the mouth feel and berry, mint, graphite, tobacco and old raisin flavors. Long lingering and flavorful and great with NYS steaks. Also of such good quality we drank it down almost immediately upon opening.

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  1/26/2023 - ronbeau Likes this wine: 92 Points

  really nice mature Cab. a little wooden trunk aroma on first opening, then smooth and fairly rich with secondary flavors of leather and earth. The 99's in general are turning out to be really nice. We had this in a line up that included Montelena estate and staglin. all were great experiences with the Staglin being the best by a small margin

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  12/12/2021 - cephomer Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Drank this weekend in Copake. Notes are consistent. Nose is earthy and woody, with some bricking. There's still black fruit here, tho more pruny than previously. There's mushrooms, forest floor, and some spice. Thinning at the back end a bit, and the finish is a bit short. Nonetheless, enjoyable mature, well-aged Cali Cab, and certainly was worth what I paid oh-so-long-ago

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  11/6/2020 - cephomer Likes this wine: 91 Points

  PNP in Copake. Nite 1: I've had this wine b4, this wine being the final of a 6-pack purchased long ago. Generous aromas of earthy mushrooms hit me on pouring this wine. There's some slight bricking at the edges. Surprisingly more dark fruit than I recall or expected, balanced by spice and notes of eucalyptus. The finish is long but a bit sour and tart. Mushrooms, earth, tobacco and forest floor dominate now.
  Nite 2: Much improvement in the wine in the past 20 hrs. Nose still on the plus side with no fade. More black fruit apparent and rounder, much more pleasant mouth feel than yesterday. Wine more balanced between fruit and mushrooms/tobacco notes. Still a bit sour on the finish. Tannins mostly resolved. Very nicely preserved, tasty mature Cali Cab.

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  10/29/2020 - djs Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Don't know that this bottle has gained much in the way of complexity but it has held up very well.

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