{"product_id":"shafer-hillside-select-cabernet-sauvignon-2010-750ml","title":"Shafer Hillside Select - Cabernet Sauvignon 2010 (750ml)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCritical Acclaim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e100 points Jeb Dunnuck, Review Date: 02\/2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn comparison to the more lavish, sexy 2002, the 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select is more structured and focused, with incredible purity in its cassis and darker currant fruits as well as complex notes of minty herbs, lead pencil shavings, licorice, graphite, and spring flowers. Reminding me of a great vintage of Château Mouton Rothschild with its concentration, structure, and balance, it’s just now at the early stages of its prime drink window, and it will continue to improve for another decade and hold for 20-25 years thereafter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e100 points Wine Advocate, Review Date: 12\/2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA remarkable wine, the 2010 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select has gone from strength to strength since it was in cask. It is stunningly rich, with classic, fragrant notes of blackcurrants, blackberries, vanilla, graphite and spring flowers. It exhibits an opaque purple color, with a full-bodied, massive mouthfeel, but no heaviness, and again, a flawless integration of acidity, tannin, alcohol and wood. It’s classic California Cabernet, but beautifully put together, showing impeccable craftsmanship and fabulous potential. This is obviously a very young, infantile style of Cabernet that won’t hit its prime for at least another decade and last close to half a century, based on how older vintages that were less well-endowed have matured from Shafer. (RP)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e98 points James Suckling, Review Date: 06\/2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Shafer family has made compelling reds for decades and this one is a knock-out. Fabulous character of currants, mint, spice and wet earth. Juicy and fruity, with an intense chewy finish. Needs time to age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e99 points, Antonio Galloni for Vinous, Review Date: 4\/2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most impressive wines of the night, the 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select is fabulous. Racy, exotic and flashy to the core, the 2010 delivers a classic, full-on Napa Valley experience. If I had to pick one Napa Valley wine that exemplifies modern viticulture and winemaking at its very best, but that remains relatively affordable (by Napa Valley standards), the 2010 Hillside Select would be it. Hard-core classicists might be troubled by the wine's sweetness, but in my view, this is as good as it gets within the genre of voluptuous, opulent Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. I have now served the 2010 at several events and it has never been anything less than magnificent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e95 points Wine Enthusaist, Review Date: 06\/2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe producer’s annual, highly anticipated 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, this comes from the wilds of the appellation’s rocky hillsides. This is a burly, distinctive and sizable wine, ripe yet refined, having been given three years in barrel and another in bottle before release. Chocolaty tobacco combines with pencil shavings and dense blackberry before finishing in an explosion of black pepper. *Cellar Selection* (VB)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e95 points Wine Spectator, Review Date: 10\/2014\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePure, rich and intense, massive and well-built, with wall-to-wall ripe berry, currant, cedar and spice notes, framed by gutsy, chewy tannins and aided by the long, intense, layered finish. *Collectibles* (JL)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Logan, Shafer Hillside Select","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48404656160992,"sku":"130971","price":487.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0649\/9713\/0464\/files\/shafer-hillside-select-cabernet-sauvignon_1.jpg?v=1765492271","url":"https:\/\/yianniswinery.com\/products\/shafer-hillside-select-cabernet-sauvignon-2010-750ml","provider":"Yiannis Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}