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Shafer 'One Point Five' Cabernet Sauvignon - $74.99

Wine Details

Price: $74.99
Producer: Shafer Vineyard
Region: Stags Leap District
Varietal: Cabernet Sauvignon
Container Size: 750 ML
Flavors:
  • Red Wine
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Product Description

  • Aromas of black, chewy fruit, cedar, chocolate, and dried herbs, followed by rich, juicy flavors of blackberry, dark chocolate, and tobacco, with a nice long finish. The tannins are ripe and supple

Expert Ratings

Ratings   Vintage Source Flavors
Tanzer - 89-92 Details: Good medium ruby-red. Red berries and spices on the nose. A bit less broad and sweet than the 2004 but juicy and fine-grained. The reticent, youthful flavors run to black cherry, licorice and leather. Finishes with pronounced tannins that will require some bottle aging. The Shafers still use 50% American oak to make this wine. But while quite spicy, these tight-grained barrels made by the French cooper Demptos from Missouri oak avoid the exotic coconutty character widely shown by American oak barrels. 2005 Tanzer berries, black cherry, leather, licorice, oak, spices, spicy
WineSpectator - 93 Details: Intense and concentrated, with vivid currant and blackberry flavors that are shaded by light toasty oak and mocha coffee scents. Smooth-textured, with ripe, fine-grained tannins, ending with a long, complex aftertaste. Drink now through 2014. Tasted twice, with consistent notes. 6,000 cases made. –JL 2004 WineSpectator blackberry, coffee, currant, mocha, toasty oak
CGCW - 91 Details: Long on currants and cherries and long on very rich oak, this juicy, abundantly fruity opus sports fine Cabernet structure and, despite undisguised finishing heat, it never once wanders away to softness. Its ample tannins disqualify it from near-term drinking, but they are neither so hard nor so imposing that they call the wine's capacity for age into question, and, while we expect that it will begin to open after three or four years, its best lies further down the road. 2004 CGCW cherries, oak
Tanzer - 91 Details: ($65; with 2% petit verdot; from the home ranch and fruit from vineyards a bit to the south) Good medium ruby. Ripe, expressive aromas of black raspberry, currant, dark chocolate, sassafras, cedar, tobacco and spices. Sweet, dense and supple; at once full and nicely focused, with dark flavors of black raspberry, mulberry and spicy oak. Finishes with big, chewy tannins and lingering suggestions of mint and leather. 2004 Tanzer cedar, currant, dark chocolate, leather, mint, oak, raspberry, sassafras, spices, spicy, tobacco

Food Pairings

Category Pairing
Red Meat Beef, Grilled Filet Mignon, Grilled Beef, Roast Beef

Wine Terms

Name Value
Cabernet Sauvignon (cab er nay saw vee nyon)—This highly adaptable grape grows almost anywhere it is relatively warm, but the best wines come from the Burgundy region of France (where it is a noble variety), California, and Australia. It became famous through the red wines of the Médoc district of Bordeaux and is now grown in Washington, southern France, Italy, Australia, South Africa, Chile, and Argentina. Cabernet Sauvignon grapes make wines that are high in tannin and medium- to full-bodied. Usually identified as having black currant or cassis flavors, the grape can also possess vegetal tones when the grapes are less than ideally ripe. The best wines are rich and firm with great depth, and are often aged for fifteen years or more. Because it is highly tannic, Cabernet Sauvignon is often blended with other less-tannic grapes such as Merlot.
United States Wineries exist in all fifty states, but the most predominant (and best) wine comes from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington State, with New York gaining a foothold in the industry. American wines make up about 75% of all wine sales in the US. The appellation system uses the term AVA (American Viticultural Area) to determine where wines were produced, but grape varieties can be planted anywhere in the country. American wineries generally use varietal labeling, and government regulations require that the variety on the label must make up at least 75% of the blend (in Oregon it’s 90%). The words reserve, special selection, private reserve, classic, and so on have no legal definition in the US. Some wineries use these terms to indicate their better wines; others use the words as a marketing tool to move lower quality wines off the shelf.
California California produces the majority of wine made in the United States. Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sauvignon Blanc, Zinfandel and Pinot Noir dominate the wine production in California, but many other varietials thrive in the California climate. Many fine wines are produced in California using Mediterranean grapes.
Napa County Napa County is located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. At the north end of Napa County is the Bay Area's second tallest peak Mount Saint Helena, and to the far south of Napa County lays the section of the Napa Valley that bleeds into Carneros. When the first white settlers arrived in the early 1830s, there were six tribes in the valley speaking different dialects and they were often at war with each other. The Mayacomos tribe lived in the area where Calistoga was founded. Napa County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood. Napa Valley is widely considered one of the top wine regions in California and all of the United States. By the end of the nineteenth century there were more than one hundred and forty wineries in the area. Today Napa Valley features more than two hundred wineries and grows many different grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, and Zinfandel. The region is visited by as many as five million people each year, making it the second to Disneyland as the most popular tourist destination in California.

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