Shafer Napa Valley Merlot (375ML half-bottle) 2006
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Shafer Napa Valley Merlot (375ML half-bottle) 2006
Merlot from Napa Valley, California
ratings pedigree (past vintages):
winemaker's notes:
This release is marked by its perfumy aromas of dark fruit that push out of the glass. The
wine itself fills the mouth with opulent flavors of red and black berry fruit, licorice, spice, pepper,
strawberry and plum. It's a wine that pairs so well with food, it makes me hungry just
tasting it.
critical acclaim:
" Easily Shafer's greatest Merlot ever. Certainly its richest, with fabulously concentrated blackberry, cherry, licorice, chocolate and cinnamon spice flavors. All this is wrapped into extraordinarily sweet, refined tannins. Addictively drinkable, but not a long ager. Best now and through 2012."
95 Points
Wine Enthusiast
"17% Cabernet Sauvignon; 7% Cabernet Franc. Heavily extracted aromas of black cherries, dark soils, hints of licorice and scads of rich oak announce this wine's serious intentions, and it continues in the mouth with deep, ripe, layered flavors whose slight tilt to ripeness is nothing more than we have seen in virtually all Shafer releases. The key, of course, is that Shafer wines have historically shown their ability to carry the style off to perfection, and, given this bottling's depth of fruit and underlying solidity, it joins the exalted ranks of its predecessors."
92 Points
Connoisseurs' Guide
"Inky garnet hue with a fuchsia rim. Heady blueberry and plum aromas with a secondary mineral nuance. Supple, mouth-filling black fruit laced with dusty, graphite accents. Dry, charred oak and an herbal spiciness cap the finish."
92 Points
The Wine News
"Very good deep ruby-red color. Medicinal black cherry, licorice and flowers on the slightly high-toned nose, along with a suggestion of cherry skin. Dense, sweet and fruity in the mouth if still a bit youthfully tight, with a slight medicinal quality to the flavors of dark berries, black cherry and licorice. Finishes smooth and long, with firm tannins. I'd give this a year before pulling the cork."
90 Points
International Wine Cellar
"The red wine program includes 10,000 cases of Merlot, but that production is decreasing in favor of the other reds. The dark ruby/purple-colored 2006 Merlot (84% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 7% Cabernet Franc) exhibits fleshy, red and black currant, bay leaf, and underbrush characteristics. Medium-bodied with sweet tannin, it should drink nicely for a decade. "
89 Points
The Wine Advocate
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