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2000 Shafer Vineyards Merlot

Merlot: 750ml

$34.99

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WE 93 WS 92

88 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, May 2003

...Pretty, floral aromas of cherry and tobacco. Not particularly complex but offers enticing redcurrant and cherry flavors and a nice sugar/acid balance. Complicating notes of fresh herbs. Finishes with firm tannins and good length...


93 points,

Wine Enthusiast, December 2002

This is brutally good wine. The dark color promises ripeness, and the stains on the side of the glass guarantee a rich, sweet mouthfeel. Just packed with dark berry and chocolate fruit, with the most gorgeous overlay of smoky oak. Fabulous Merlot, and all the more remarkable for being an assembled wine from six different Napa subappellations.


92 points,

Wine Spectator, September 2002

Smooth-textured, with polished currant, mocha, cranberry and cherry, plus touches of tobacco, coffee and spice...


88 points,

Stephen Tanzer's IWC, May 2003

...Pretty, floral aromas of cherry and tobacco. Not particularly complex but offers enticing redcurrant and cherry flavors and a nice sugar/acid balance. Complicating notes of fresh herbs. Finishes with firm tannins and good length...


93 points,

Wine Enthusiast, December 2002

This is brutally good wine. The dark color promises ripeness, and the stains on the side of the glass guarantee a rich, sweet mouthfeel. Just packed with dark berry and chocolate fruit, with the most gorgeous overlay of smoky oak. Fabulous Merlot, and all the more remarkable for being an assembled wine from six different Napa subappellations.


92 points,

Wine Spectator, September 2002

Smooth-textured, with polished currant, mocha, cranberry and cherry, plus touches of tobacco, coffee and spice...


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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