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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.7 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 6 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by jkoenen on 1/18/2020 & rated 92 points: Wow..!
This is the best bottle out of a sixpack that I bought at an auction 3 years ago...
And although I already was impressed by the first four bottles, this one really punches above its weight. And age.
Cranberreis , cherries, dried herbs, attractive acidity, faint hints of orange peel and sandalwood.
Could easily be mistaken for a 10 year old (!) Chianti.... without the tannines. (673 views) | | | Tasted by jkoenen on 2/20/2018 & rated 89 points: Still alive.... wow.
Not the most complex nor concetrated wine, but holding up very well.
Bright acidity, transparant and elegant.
Cranberries, cherries and plums.
An amazing achievement for this entry-level label. (1048 views) | | | Tasted by Zweder on 6/15/2017 & rated 92 points: UWS (@ JB): Dark fruits, sweet spices and some smoke in the bouquet. On the palate ripe dark berry fruits, beautifully dosed oak and good acidity. Elegant wine. Classical style. (1712 views) | | | Tasted by Xavier Auerbach on 12/10/2016 & rated 92 points: A private tasting (Restaurant De Ertepeller, Papendrecht. NL): Tasted blind. Mature but lively appearance; ripe and spicy nose, Grenache-dominated, spices, hint of barnyard, smoky, warm chestnuts, glowing, liquorice; supple and rounded palate, like an old Châteauneuf, mature, transparent; complete finish, very good length. We were all extremely surprised to hear that this was a Merlot! (2503 views) | | | Tasted by jkoenen on 9/11/2016 & rated 89 points: still fresh! Cranberry fruit, nebbiolo colour, floral fundament, rose petal. (1556 views) |
| Shafer Producer website
John Shafer and his family founded Shafer Vineyards, located in the Stags Leap District of the Napa Valley, in 1979. From the Shafers' first wine, a 1978 Cabernet Sauvignon,
their wines have won much acclaim. Today, the Shafers farm 200 acres of vineyard in the Stags Leap District, Carneros and Oak Knoll regions. Their flagship wine, Hillside Select,
is produced from selected blocks of the family's hillside vineyards and is 100% Cabernet Sauvignon. They also produce Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay, Merlot, One Point Five
(Cabernet Sauvignon) and Relentless (a Syrah/Petite Sirah blend), which was named #1 wine of the year by Wine Spectator's "Top 100" of 2012.MerlotMerlot is a dark blue–colored wine grape variety, that is used as both a blending grape and for varietal wines. The name Merlot is thought to be a diminutive of merle, the French name for the blackbird, probably a reference to the color of the grape. Its softness and "fleshiness", combined with its earlier ripening, makes Merlot a popular grape for blending with the sterner, later-ripening Cabernet Sauvignon, which tends to be higher in tannin.USAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Napa ValleySt. Helena |
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