Shafer, Hillside Select, 2021
Shafer, Hillside Select, 2021
- Red Still
- Organic
- Biodynamic
- Cabernet Sauvignon
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Touted as "one of the world's greatest wineries" by Robert Parker, Shafer's main focus has been the luxuriant, richly textured Cabernet Sauvignon from their Stags Leap Vineyard, however father and son John and Doug Shafer produce exceptional wines throughout Napa Valley and Carneros.
The Hillside Select is crafted from grapes grown on rugged, rocky hillside vineyards, ensuring low yields of highly concentrated fruit. Hillside Select traces its origins to Shafer’s inaugural wine, the 1978 Cabernet Sauvignon. By 1983, recognising its exceptional quality, the wine was officially named "Hillside Select", marking the beginning of a legacy of producing one of Napa Valley's most iconic Cabernet Sauvignons.
Drinking window: 2025 - 2045
What the critics say:
"Such a beautifully balanced wine with tremendous staying power and expressive Stags Leap ironstone minerality with heady sagebrush and conifer notes with white pepper and walnut husk. The wine has an impressive depth of red-toned fruit on the mid-palate framed by tannins that practically dance across the palate, exuding length, tension, and power. Huckleberry and black cherry fruits, black truffle, dried violets, graphite, and salted dark chocolate are all framed by racy acidity, which keeps everything fresh and lifted. The 2021 releases mark Elias Fernandez's 38th vintage as Shafer's winemaker. He was hired by John Shafer in 1984, two weeks out of UC Davis."
"The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select was tasted as a barrel sample. Deep garnet-purple in color, it charges out with powerful notes of creme de cassis, plum preserves, and juicy blueberries giving way to an undercurrent of tar, candied violets, and star anise. The full-bodied palate is concentrated and impactful, delivering a firm, grainy texture and well-knit freshness to support the generous black and blue fruits, finishing long with loads of mineral and exotic spices sparks. This is impressive!"
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