2007 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley

2007 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley

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2007 Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select, Cabernet Sauvignon, Napa Valley

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One of the perfect wines from Shafer is the 2007 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select. Think it over in the first decade of the 21st century, Shafer scored three perfect scores and two 99s thats about as high a praise as I can give any producer in the world. Opaque purple in color, the 2007 has a stunning nose of sweet crme de cassis, black cherries, licorice, and toasty oak, a multilayered, full-throttle personality, and a texture that builds and builds. Great purity, fabulous fruit intensity and a richness without heaviness characterize this massive, prodigious effort from Shafer. Its still very young, despite this vintage, which seems to be maturing precociously. I dont believe this wine will hit its stride for at least another 5-10 years and drink well for at least 2-3 decades.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 30/12/2014

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One of the perfect wines from Shafer is the 2007 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select. Think it over in the first decade of the 21st century, Shafer scored three perfect scores and two 99s thats about as high a praise as I can give any producer in the world. Opaque purple in color, the 2007 has a stunning nose of sweet crme de cassis, black cherries, licorice, and toasty oak, a multilayered, full-throttle personality, and a texture that builds and builds. Great purity, fabulous fruit intensity and a richness without heaviness characterize this massive, prodigious effort from Shafer. Its still very young, despite this vintage, which seems to be maturing precociously. I dont believe this wine will hit its stride for at least another 5-10 years and drink well for at least 2-3 decades.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 30/12/2014 Read more

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Shafer Vineyards

Shafer Vineyards

Shafer Vineyards is one of the star wineries, not only in Napa Valley but in all of California. It began in 1972 when John Shafer left a career in Publishing and moved to the Napa Valley with his family to pursue a career in wine.  The family purchased a large estate in the Stag’s Leap District, and set to work on replanting all the existing vineyards, which had been there since the 1920s. 

In 1978, the Shafers had their first harvest of Cabernet grapes, and began construction of their first winery in 1979. The Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon was of a high standard, and rose above other wines that were in competition. Their Chardonnay never undergoes malolactic fermentation: 75% is barrel-fermented and the other quarter in stainless steel. The Stags Leap One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon has won much acclaim, while the flagship wine in the Shafer portfolio is Hillside Select, a 2,400-case cuvée of 100% Cabernet Sauvignon aged 32 months in 100% new French oak.

Doug Shafer graduated from the University of California at Davis with a degree in oenology and viticulture in 1983, and a year later Elias Fernandez joined the company as assistant winemaker. The two work together to produce consistent, high quality and elegant Shafer wines.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon

The most famous red wine grape in the world and one of the most widely planted.

It is adaptable to a wide range of soils, although it performs particularly well on well-drained, low-fertile soils. It has small, dusty, black-blue berries with thick skins that produce deeply coloured, full-bodied wines with notable tannins. Its spiritual home is the Médoc and Graves regions of Bordeaux where it thrives on the well-drained gravel-rich soils producing tannic wines with piercing blackcurrant fruits that develop complex cedarwood and cigar box nuances when fully mature.

The grape is widely planted in California where Cabernet Sauvignon based wines are distinguished by their rich mixture of cassis, mint, eucalyptus and vanilla oak. It is planted across Australia and with particular success in Coonawarra where it is suited to the famed Terra Rossa soil. In Italy barrique aged Cabernet Sauvignon is a key component in Super Tuscans such as Tignanello and Sassicaia, either on its own or as part of a blend with Sangiovese.

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