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94 Wine Enthusiast -
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This is a perennially impressive wine, floral in a heady perfume of white roses. Fresh and fleshy, the expansive palate offers concentrated flavors of kiwi and pineapple. The wine was largely fermented in oak, then aged just over a year in French oak (75% new). It holds the oak well, ending bright in juicy acidity.
94 Jeb Dunnuck -
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The 2016 Chardonnay is a rich, voluptuous effort (despite not going through malolactic fermentation) that’s loaded with notions of white peach, white flowers, and brioche. With balancing acidity and terrific purity, it’s a quintessential Napa Valley Chardonnay that’s ideal for drinking over the coming 4-5 years.
93 Vinous -
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Shafer's 2016 Chardonnay Red Shoulder Ranch is focused, tightly wound and bristling with energy. Lemon confit, white flowers, mint and crushed rocks are all vivid and finely cut in this very pretty, nuanced wine. Slightly tropical notes develop with air but the 2016 is marked by its sense of drive and tension. The 2016 was done in 75% new oak and 25% steel, with blocked malolactic fermentation.
Technical Details
- BlendChardonnay
- WinemakerElias Fernandez
- CountryUS
- RegionCalifornia North Coast
- AppellationCarneros
- VineyardRed Shoulder Ranch
- Farming MethodSustainable
- Oak75% new French oak barrels Allier, Vosges
- Aging/Cooperage14 months
- Stainless25% in stainless steel barrels
- Alcohol14.90%%
Shafer Chardonnay Red Shoulder Ranch 2016
Chardonnay | US
WE94, JD94, VN93
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Like Chappellet, Pahlmeyer, Stony Hill and many other classic Napa Valley Chardonnays, Red Shoulder ALWAYS delivers. Ripe, juicy, toasty, spicy and penetrating. So good. 94 points!
About the Producer
John Shafer uprooted his family from Chicago in 1972, and bought 209 acres in what would later become Stag's Leap District. He quickly planted a small parcel of Cabernet in the hillsides above the winery at the advice of Nathan Fay and created his first wine from that planting in 1978, a precursor to their legendary Hillside Select. John's son Doug joined the family biz in 1983 and has helped shepard the winery into the international limelight.