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1988 Shafer Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select

Cabernet Sauvignon: 750ml

$180.00

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points awarded:
ST 90-93

90 -93 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, June 1999

Saturated dark ruby. Floral, spicy aromas of crushed berries; still distinctly grapey shortly after the end of the secondary fermentation. Penetrating, sharply focused fruit offers superb intensity. Finishes long and subtle, with very firm acidity. Far too young to judge with confidence: it will be interesting to see if this wine puts on enough weight during its long elevage to rank with the best Hillside Select bottlings of recent years.


90 -93 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, June 1999

Saturated dark ruby. Floral, spicy aromas of crushed berries; still distinctly grapey shortly after the end of the secondary fermentation. Penetrating, sharply focused fruit offers superb intensity. Finishes long and subtle, with very firm acidity. Far too young to judge with confidence: it will be interesting to see if this wine puts on enough weight during its long elevage to rank with the best Hillside Select bottlings of recent years.


About Winery

Shafer Vineyards traces its beginnings to 1972 when John Shafer left a 23-year career in the publishing industry and, with his family, moved to the Napa Valley to pursue a second career in wine. After purchasing a 210-acre estate in Napa Valley's Stags Leap District, the Shafer family faced the arduous task of replanting the existing vineyards, which dated to the 1920s, and terracing the steep and rocky hillsides, eventually expanding vineyard acreage to its current 50 acres.Evolving from grape growers to vintners, the Shafers crushed their first Cabernet grapes in 1978 and began construction on their winery a year later.

The first Shafer Cabernet became a benchmark, winning the acclaimed San Francisco Vintners Club taste-off upon release and, over a decade later taking first place in an international blind tasting held in Germany, where it outranked such wines as Chateau Margaux, Chateau Latour and Chateau Palmer.

Doug Shafer became winemaker in 1983 after graduating from the University of California at Davis with a degree in enology and viticulture. A year later Elias Fernandez joined the winery as assistant winemaker. Together Doug and Elias have worked closely to forge the Shafer style of quality, consistency and elegance.

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