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LOT 276

Lot 276

SHAFER CABERNET SAUVIGNON HILLSIDE SELECT 2001 (6, OWC) WA 100

SHAFER CABERNET SAUVIGNON HILLSIDE SELECT 2001 (6, OWC) WA 100
Lot 276 Details
SHAFER CABERNET SAUVIGNON HILLSIDE SELECT 2001 (OWC)

Stags Leap District, Napa Valley.
1 x scraped label

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, and probably won’t hit its peak for another 5-7 years. December 2014 Drink: 2019-2045 WA 100

6 bts.    per lot $2,600 - $2,800

Realised: $4,524
Price Includes Buyer's Premium ?

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