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2012 Shafer Vineyards Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay
- Carneros, USA
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- Avg Price (ex-tax)
- $ 57 / 750ml
- White - Buttery and Complex
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Includes 2018 25th Anniversary edition
Critic tasting note: "Richly made, this offers juicy stone fruit such as peach alongside more unusual flavors of fennel and kiwi, a streak of minerality running throughout the more weighted layers. A fantastic food wine, it can be paired with plates of cheese and charcuterie, even foie gras where it's legal." - 91/100, Wine Enthusiast
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2012 Bottle (750ml)
Shafer Red Shoulder Chardonnay 2012, California, United States, 750ml
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2012 Bottle (750ml)
Shafer Chardonnay Red Shoulder Ranch, Napa Valley, California, United States, 750ml
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Highlights
- From Carneros, USA
- Avg. Price (ex-tax) $ 57 / 750ml
- White Wine – Buttery and Complex
- Chardonnay
- Pairs well with Manchego and Parmesan
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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About the Product
- Region or Appellation
- Producer Notes
- Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay is a wine that bears the elegant imprint of its vineyard home – 68 acres that roll across the pastoral hill country of Los Carneros, a place where Napa Valley meets the northernmost rim of San Francisco Bay. The vineyard is named to honor the Red-shouldered Hawks and other birds of prey that play a vital role in our sustainable farming practices (in this case keeping gopher and other rodent populations naturally under control).
- Drinking Window
- 2014-2018
Analytical Data
- Alcohol ABV
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14.5%
- Sweetness
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Dry
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100% Chardonnay
Production Attributes
Barrel Fermented · Indigenous Fermentation
- Maturation
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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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Shafer’s Red Shoulder Ranch in Carneros.
- Winemaking
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Whole-cluster pressed and fermented with wild yeast in individual barrels (75% oak, 25% stainless steel); 0% malolactic fermentation
- Ageing
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14 months in 75% new French oak barrels (Allier, Vosges) and 25% in stainless steel barrels.
About the Wine
Suggested Dishes to Pair With This Wine
- Chicken satay Starter Course
- Chicken in peanut sauce
- South East Asian
- Casserole of corn meal and chicken mole Main Course
- Mexican
- Cep and ricotta ravioli Main Course
- With Jerusalem artichoke fonduta and winter truffle
- Contains: porcini
- Argentinian
- Tortilla, chicken Main Course
- Contains: coriander, chilli
- Mexican
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2012 vintage
91 / 100
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When to drink: 2014 to 2018
2012 Vintage
Tasted: Jan 2014
Richly made, this offers juicy stone fruit such as peach alongside more unusual flavors of fennel and kiwi, a streak of minerality running throughout the more weighted layers. A fantastic food wine, it can be paired with plates of cheese and charcuterie, even foie gras where it's legal.
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91 / 100
$ 70
2022
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$ 71
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2019
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92 / 100
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90 / 100
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2012 Vintage: California Learn more
Vintage quality: Good
Current condition: Ready to drink, will keep
The 2012 vintage for California was good but rarely great.
The growing season was warm and steady with few hiccups, which ultimately resulted in a huge harvest. The harvest was so large that some producers had difficulty accommodating all the fruit as physical...
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