Shafer Vineyards Hillside Select 2013 0,75

“… a beautiful reflection of both its rugged vineyard site and an ideal vintage. Room-filling, energetic aromas of juicy, dark fruit and white flowers are completed by complex, youthful core-flavors of blackberry, cassis, and black cherry along with delicate herbs, graphite, and smoke. The wine is smooth and balanced as it moves through the mouth. The texture is seamless and light on its feet with classic Stags Leap District tannins that are ripe and ready for aging. There’s a lot of lush, vivid pleasure in the bottle now with more to come with a few years in a good cellar.”
— Shafer winemaker Elias Fernandez

“Massively concentrated but incredibly elegant and poised, this is a wine of great energy and vibrancy. It is fabulously deep, built like a skyscraper, and set for an incredibly long life.”
— Robert M. Parker, Jr., The Wine Advocate

“Graceful and supple, rich and loamy, tilted toward the savory, herbal side of Cabernet, with modest cherry and currant notes. Displays deft balance and hints of anise and underbrush. Complex throughout.”
— James Laube, Wine Spectator

“… a jewel of a wine … an intensely savory, mineral driven vintage for Shafer’s flagship Cabernet Sauvignon.”
— Antonio Galloni, Vinous.com