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Shafer 2004 Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags Leap District)

Price $215

A perfect score has to be considered in the context of its region. Shafer’s 2004 Hillside Select is tremendous as a Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon that competes with its peers at the highest levels. It’s always a fabulous wine, but in warm 2004, Shafer’s amphitheater vineyard sheltered the grapes, ripening them to perfection yet protecting the “iron fist in a… — S.H. (3/1/2009)

Shafer 2001 Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags Leap District)

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Price $175

No Cabernet smells better. This is an enormously attractive, well-oaked wine constituted from the best possible fruit. In the mouth, it immediately seduces. Shafer knows it has to rise to expectations with this wine, and the 2001 does not disappoint. The fruit is spectacular, all cassis. The oak is rich, flamboyant and delicious. Structurally, the wine has the best… — S.H. (12/31/2005)

Shafer 2002 Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags Leap District)

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Price $190

The impression is of a young, tannicly closed but enormously promising Cabernet. Floods the mouth with dramatic black currant, cherry and chocolate flavors, masses of toasty, caramelized new oak, and a rich, minerally earthiness. For all the power, there’s elegance and refinement. If you must drink it now, decant it; best 2008–2015. — S.H. (9/1/2006)

Shafer 2007 Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags Leap District)

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Price $225

In keeping with the voluptuous approachability of the 2007 vintage, this 100% Cabernet Sauvignon is simply fabulous now for its flood of the ripest, sweetest blackberrries, cherries, cassis and chocolate imaginable. Especially noble is the tannin structure, firm and soft, dry and sweet, a combination of opposites. The depth is vast, and the spicy finish goes on for… — S.H. (4/1/2012)

Baldacci 2006 Brenda's Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags Leap District)

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Price $85

Easily earns its high score for the sheer power and mass, equal to anything out of Napa. Erupts in the most complex blackberries, black currants, licorice and 100% new smoky oak flavors, with a spicy finish that goes on and on. The tannins are strong and fine and impressive. Not for the faint-hearted, and not a wine to drink now, as it will swamp food. Should begin… — S.H. (2/1/2010)

Reynolds Family Winery 2007 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags Leap District)

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Price $89

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Score Chasers: USA 2011

A big, vital and important Cabernet that deserves a place in the cellar. It hits the mouth with huge tannins that are tight and locked down, yet sweetly ripe. That contradiction persists throughout the fantastically complex blackberry, cherry, currant and mocha flavors. A very fine, superior wine that exemplifies the Stags Leap iron fist in a velvet glove. As… — S.H. (6/1/2011)

Shafer 2003 Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags Leap District)

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Price $200

Solidly in the Hillside Select model, this vigorous young Cab is dramatically ripe and powerful. The flavors of red and black currants, milk chocolate, figs and smoky vanilla erupt in the mouth, making the tastebuds jump with joy. However, there is also the structure, among the greatest in California Cabs. The acidity is fine, but the tannins are stupendously rich… — S.H. (3/1/2008)

Shafer 1997 Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon (Stags Leap District)

Price $150

Fabulous. Dominated now by oak, from the smoky charry aroma to the sappy, sweet flavor. If you chew on it, you find absolutely brilliant blackberry fruit, ripe and pure. Breathtaking structure, with near perfect creamy tannins and soft but supportive acidity. Gorgeous now in it's flamboyant, fleshy youth, or worth aging-have it your way. — S.H. (12/31/2001)

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