Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon 2001

Shafer Hillside Select 2001 is a full-bodied Cabernet Sauvignon-based red wine from the Stag`s Leap Districy of California. Shafer Vineyards is a top-tier winery in the Stags Leap District, renowned for its highly regarded and consistently exceptional Cabernet Sauvignon bottlings. The Hillside Select is Shafer`s flagship wine, sourced from sunny, rugged hillside vineyard blocks which result in particularly intense fruit. "The 2001 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select is the first of these back-to-back perfect wines from Shafer that, at age 13, is still a baby, but, wow, what an amazing wine. A fabulous growing season produced a wine with inky/purple black color, stunning crème de cassis notes, with additional hints of lead pencil shavings, spring flowers, cedar wood and forest floor. It is full-bodied, sensationally concentrated, with a seamless integration of acidity, tannin, wood and alcohol. This is a great, monumental Napa Cabernet Sauvignon that is still an infant, at age 13, going on 14. This has got at least three decades of life left in it..." 100 points, Robert Parker, 2014