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Shafer Hillside Select Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

California - Napa Valley, United States, Red wine, Cabernet Sauvignon
0.75 l, Item no. 13025

The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon "Hillside Select' joins a series of perfect vintages that simply take your breath away. The wine manages to combine richness, volume and concentration with finesse and refinement. It exudes immense calm and at the same time possesses an enormous amount of energy. Aromatically, this is a perfect Cabernet with notes of crème de cassis, Black Forest cherry and blueberry jam, the finest wood, vanilla, cinnamon and cigar box, violets, garrigue and liquorice. A wine with perfect tannin structure and fantastic length.

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Characteristics

Vintage: 2018
Wine color: red
Classification: -
Type of cultivation: traditional
Alcohol content: 15,5 %
Drinking temperature: 16-18°
Additives: Sulfite
Storage capability: 20 and more years

Varieties

Cabernet Sauvignon: 100,0 %

Packaging

Bottle size: 750ml
Features: natural cork
Packaging: -

Shafer Vineyards

You don't have to look back on a long winemaking history to make history. A wine from Shafer, for example, is called One-Point-Five. Even though it celebrates 35 years of collaboration between father and son, it also shows that there are just 1.5 generations at work here.