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The July 2021 Auction: Part 5

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Auction Ends: 7/29/2021 6:00:00 PM PDT

Lot #703. Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select 1998

Description: Consists of 3 Bottles, 0.75L
Score: 95 RP.
"The 1998 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Select was produced during a challenging vintage in Napa Valley with an incredible heat wave in mid-July, with temperatures at the Hillside Select property hitting an astonishing 114 degrees. This was brutal for the grapes, but a strict selection, and as Doug and John Shafer said, “We make no excuses at this winery.” Certainly, this was one of the great successes in this vintage. Very tiny yields from small, rather shriveled berries produced a super-extracted, rich, intense wine that has some smokey barbecue notes along with blackcurrants, cedar wood, wet rocks and background oak and burning embers. There's almost a Graves-like, scorched earth character to this vintage. This medium to full-bodied wine is intense and undeniably one of the top ten wines in Napa Valley." eRobertParker.com #216, Dec 2014
Provenance: The Aquamarine Cellar
Lot Location: Orange County
Estimate: $1,000

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