Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet (2021)

Hillside Select is a wine of a place, sourced from carefully selected blocks of Stags Leap District hillside vineyards.These grapes are small and deeply colored, with concentrated flavors enhanced by meticulous winemaking and extensive aging in French oak barrels. Hillside Select consistently expresses the voluptuous fruit, rich flavors, and velvety texture that characterize grapes grown in this renown AVA.

Winemaker’s Comments
“The 2021 vintage expresses Hillside Select’s singular elegance, vibrancy, and balance. The aromas lift out of the glass, offering blackberry, cedar, black currant, and just-picked cherry with graceful floral and leather tones. The complexity of the vintage is striking, merging dark fruit with red plum, wet stone, lavender, and black tea. The ripe, seamlessly integrated tannins add depth, precision, and serious structure for decades of aging, all culminating in a long, exquisite finish.”
— Elias Fernandez, Shafer Vineyards Winemaker

What Others Are Saying
“... concentrated and impactful, delivering a firm, grainy texture and well-knit freshness ...
impressive!” (98) — Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Independent

“... a behemoth of a wine ... full-bodied, concentrated, yet pure, flawlessly balanced, and has a great finish.” (98) — Jeb Dunnuck

“Floral and vibrant, the 2021 sizzles with tension and a level of delineation ... possesses a notable purity of fruit and exceptional balance.” (98) — Antonio Galloni, Vinous