Hillside Select 1997 Shafer

Classification	Cru Classe
Type	Red
Brand	Shafer
Vintage	1997
Country	United States
Region	Napa Valley
Volume	0,75
Condition	Perfect
Label	Perfect
Drinkable	-2030
Stock	0

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (96)

The 1997 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select is a relatively evolved style for Hillside Select and seemingly more advanced than the older vintages, such as 1995 and 1994. Nevertheless, there is plenty to excite. It’s a big wine, dense purple in color with some lightening at the edge, plenty of crème de cassis fruit, lead pencil shavings, sweet vanilla and earth. It is very ripe, full-bodied, opulent and voluptuously textured. This is terrific stuff, hedonistic, showing secondary/tertiary nuances in the aromatics and essentially a full resolution of the tannin. This wine also seems to have come into its own and is clearly at its peak of flavor.

Winespectator (91)

Aging nicely, mature yet structured, with dried currant, mineral, sage and dusty cedary oak. Keeps its focus on the core earth and currant flavors. Still deep and intense, with persistent flavors. Not up to its usual standards.

BOW (8.25)