2018 Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet SauvignonWinemaker Notes Hillside Select is a wine of a place, sourced from carefully selected blocks of Stags Leap District hillside vineyards. These grapes are small and deeply colored, with concentrated flavors enhanced by meticulous winemaking and extensive aging in French oak barrels. Hillside Select consistently expresses the voluptuous fruit, rich flavors, and velvety texture that characterize grapes grown in this renown AVA. About Winery Shafer

called Castiglioncello after the 11th-century castle at the vineyard's upper edge

Lomelí returned to school to study marketing

Exceptionally long finish

There are also warmer spiced notes of Crème brûlée

The Place: The site

94% petite sirah and 6% zinfandel

Firmer in texture and tannin

Part of our Lodi lineup

The 2020 Château de Sales winemaker notes describe it as a wine with a deep color and complex nose of black fruits

but behind it are some very nice fruit and elegant tannins

cassis and plum

5 hectares of old vines bask in a very favorable exposure