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| Community Tasting Notes (average 90.2 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 11 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ebrumby on 8/24/2008 & rated 91 points: This bottle tasted young, while another bottle I bought the same day at the winery tasted on the decline. Would go with the advice to drink this up now, but some bottles may still have some time left. (5348 views) | | | Tasted by Mark on 5/21/2008 & rated 86 points: Similar tasting impression as my previous bottle back in 1996. Some decline and this wine should be consumed. (5432 views) | | | Tasted by spacewrangler on 1/18/2008 & rated 92 points: Decanted for an hour and then poured back into bottle. Vibrant purple color, with smoky raspberry on the nose. A chocolate attack segues into a dark, red fruit finish - reminds me of Smuckers jam, the fruit is that intense. Nice acidic spine - very juicy and sappy. (5638 views) | | | Tasted by mazama on 9/30/2006 flawed bottle: Bottle was corked! (5987 views) | | | Tasted by Mark on 9/14/2006 & rated 87 points: A real surprising wine. I popped the cork, and for the next half hour sipped an almost undrinkable wine, hoping that it would turn the corner and open up. I was low in the fruit, with a hard tannic finish and just overall unpleasant. I gave up and opened something else. Two hours later, it has transformed. It has hasn’t opened up at all, but the hard and harsh finish has given way to a subtle and smooth ending. A very light cherry nose which opens up in the mouth with good weight. Short finish, but I’m still surprised at how much this has mellowed and softened with time. Still, the wine is at the end of it’s life and should be consumed soon. (5967 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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