2001 Shafer "Hillside Select" Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon (1.5L)

Bid on this magnum of 2001 Shafer "Hillside Select" Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon (1.5L) (100RP, 98WE, 96WS, 95CG, 95VN, 94W&S). Wine Advocate: "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. (RP)" (12/2014)