Shafer Vineyards - Hillside Select 1998 (750ml)

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Price: $399.00

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Producer Shafer Vineyards
Country United States
Region Napa Valley
Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
Vintage 1998
Sku 8-01-22-33-9800118
Size 750ml

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Wine Advocate: 95 Points

The 1998 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select was produced during a challenging vintage in Napa Valley with an incredible heat wave in mid-July, with temperatures at the Hillside Select property hitting an astonishing 114 degrees. This was brutal for the grapes, but a strict selection, and as Doug and John Shafer said, ?We make no excuses at this winery.? Certainly, this was one of the great successes in this vintage. Very tiny yields from small, rather shriveled berries produced a super-extracted, rich, intense wine that has some smokey barbecue notes along with blackcurrants, cedar wood, wet rocks and background oak and burning embers. There's almost a Graves-like, scorched earth character to this vintage. This medium to full-bodied wine is intense and undeniably one of the top ten wines in Napa Valley. Moreover, it should continue to drink well for another 10-15 years. 

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