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Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon(2001)
Hillside Select is made of 100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon fruit sourced from rugged hillside vineyard blocks on our Stags Leap District Estate. Truly a “wine of a place,” this Cabernet exemplifies the extraordinary richness and suppleness consistently produced in our little valley within a valley.
From the legendary 2001 vintage this Hillside Select offers aromatic and huge black berry and vanilla, loaded with black currant and cassis; round, rich, layered dark fruit flavors, with a balanced seasoning of minerals, tobacco, and herbs; a core of sweetness emerges from our small-berried read more...
- Methuselah48
- October 2007
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- I had the pleasure of drinking this wine with John Shafer at a wine dinner last year at the Four Seasons restaurant. This wine is silk on the palate - unbelievable. Tannin structure is strong but not overpowering. Complex tastes of chocolate, dark fruit but oh, that silkiness just keeps you coming back.
- The 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select is a potentially perfect wine in the making. A skyscraper that builds in the mouth with multiple dimensions, amazing layers of flavor, great delicacy, and tremendous purity, this inky purple-colored Cabernet offers extraordinarily pure creme de cassis notes intermixed with crushed rocks, flowers, sweet oak, an amazingly powerful yet impeccably balanced mid-palate, and a sweet, 70-second finish. This prodigious Cabernet Sauvignon is about as good as Cabernet can be.
- bradyr
- June 2007
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- Exceptional. Blows you away with its nose and is a truly outstanding wine.
