SHAFER HILLSIDE SELECT CABERNET 2004

100 Points The Wine Enthusiast
 
"A perfect score has to be considered in the context of its region. Shafer' 2004 Hillside Select is tremendous as a Napa Valley ley Cabernet Sauvignon that competes with its peers at the highest levels...This 100% Cabernet is tremendous in cassis, black currant and mocha flavors, and the 100% new French oak provides perfect additions of smoke and caramel. It's soft and gorgeous enough to drink now, and should age well in a cool cellar for the next 20 years."

97 Points The Wine Advocate 
 
"One of the worlds, as well as Napa's, most profound Cabernet Sauvignons...This is a wine that usually has 20-30 years of aging potential. The 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select is showing even better than it did last year. A much sexier, opulent, flamboyant style of wine with notes of black currant liqueur intermixed with toasty new oak, charcoal, smoke, barbecue spices, and oodles of fruit, this wine has fabulous richness in an exuberant, sexy style, and a long, heady layered finish with nothing out of balance. The integration of acidity, tannin, wood, and alcohol are brilliant. This is a great wine to drink over the next two decades, if not longer."