Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select - 2001 (1.5L) Tourpes-Leuze hints of barley-sugar and minerality

hints of barley-sugar and minerality

The blue label denotes the higher strength version

Rather than being simply a ‘finished’ whiskey

which is important to retain freshness in this hot

organically farmed land — all of which he works by hand (while managing to keep his beloved local bar

Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select - 2001 (1.5L) Tourpes-Leuze hints of barley-sugar and mineralityThe 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 crme 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