Shafer Hillside Select Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- United States
- Stags Leap District
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 40
- Community notes
- 3,170
- Merchant offers
- 524
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 99/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 94/ 1003,170 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £232per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 3-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
- Drinking window
- 2024–2052drinking2021 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 963 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, cassis, black fruit, blackcurrant
- Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, graphite, minerals
- Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, menthol, eucalyptus
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, cranberry, strawberry
- Floral · violet, perfume, lavender, acacia, dried flowers
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1991One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202293drinkersunit not stated
- 202199critic£232 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
- 201998critic£260 / 75cl6-1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
- 201899critic£218 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
- 201797critic£183 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023
- 2016100criticunit not stated
- 201598critic£183 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
- 201498critic£235 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
- 201397critic£194 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
- 201298critic£264 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
- 201195critic£165 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2022
- 201099critic£366 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, October 2026
- 200993criticunit not stated
- 200894critic£201 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020
- 200796criticunit not stated
- 200692criticunit not stated
- 200595criticunit not stated
- 200497critic£285 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
- 200393criticunit not stated
- 200294critic£423 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
- 200198critic£358 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
- 200088criticunit not stated
- 199995criticunit not stated
- 199893criticunit not stated
- 199795criticunit not stated
- 199693critic£273 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 199596critic£294 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017
- 199495critic£373 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2021
- 199391criticunit not stated
- 199292drinkersunit not stated
- 199194critic£454 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 199093drinkers
- 198990drinkers
- 198882drinkers
- 198791drinkers
- 198689drinkers
- 198592drinkers
- 198491drinkers
- 198391drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2016
- 100 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2016
- drinking, window 2022–2062
- Lowest price
- 2011
- £165 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £232 | 98.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025 |
| 2019 | £260 | 98 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2018 | £218 | 98.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024 |
| 2017 | £183 | 96.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023 |
| 2015 | £183 | 97.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019 |
| 2014 | £235 | 97.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021 |
| 2013 | £194 | 97.4 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017 |
| 2012 | £264 | 98 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018 |
| 2011 | £165 | 94.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2022 |
| 2010 | £366 | 99 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026 |
| 2008 | £201 | 94 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020 |
| 2004 | £285 | 96.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021 |
| 2002 | £423 | 94 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022 |
| 2001 | £358 | 98 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023 |
| 1996 | £273 | 92.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 1995 | £294 | 95.6 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017 |
| 1994 | £373 | 94.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2021 |
| 1991 | £454 | 93.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
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