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Shafer Vineyards
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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.
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Hillside Select® Cabernet Sauvignon
This Hillside Select from the legendary 2001 vintage offers aromatic and extremely concentrated black currant fruit; round, rich, layered flavors, with a balanced seasoning of minerals, tobacco, and herbs; a core of sweetness emerges from our small-berried hillside fruit with a long, mouth-filling finish of dark chocolate, vanilla and spice all surrounded by the classic silky tannins of the Stags Leap District.” – Elias Fernandez
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Last Chance Firebreak®
At their current age, our Sangiovese vines have hit a new level of smaturity and, thanks to a diligent and highly skilled vineyard team, we are harvesting some of the best fruit we’ve seen. The 2002 release is a great dinner companion, offering delicious facets of saltiness, cranberry, black pepper and spiciness.
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Merlot
This luscious, substantive Merlot from the superb 2003 vintage serves up juicy black cherries, liqueur, aromatic dark berry fruits, vanilla bean, and warm earth. The blend brings in Cabernet Sauvignon for added age-ability and the Cabernet Franc for hints of perfume and violets.
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Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
This release offers solid layers of dark, juicy Cabernet fruit, classic blackberry and cherry, plus herbs, cedar, and black pepper spread over a sweet, jazzy core. American oak adds spice, vanilla, char and coconut.
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Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay
Our earliest Chardonnay harvest on record has given us an abundant, full-bodied fruit bowl of honeysuckle, peach, apricot, and flavors of the tropics. The underlying acidity, resulting from our cool-weather vineyard site in Carneros, is nicely integrated with warm, toasty oak, and the whole package is tied up with a long, exotic mouth-pleasing finish.
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Relentless®
Bolder than ever, this wine from the picture-perfect 2002 vintage delivers a juicy flood wall of flavor: deep purple/black fruit, coconut oak and blackberry jam. The Syrah offers classic varietal meatiness and black pepper while the Petite Sirah brings in bramble fruit and deep blueberry.
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