1998 Shafer "Hillside Select" Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon It may sound unusual

It may sound unusual

It is a big

it possesses all the classic elegance

with layers of ripe fig

This feels cohesive in the mouth

1998 Shafer "Hillside Select" Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon It may sound unusualThe 1998 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select was produced during a challenging vintage in Napa Valley with an incredible heat wave in mid July, with temperatures at the Hillside Select property hitting an astonishing 114 degrees. This was brutal for the grapes, but a strict selection, and as Doug and John Shafer said, 'We make no excuses at this winery.' Certainly, this was one of the great successes in this vintage. Very tiny yields from small,