TN: '95 Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon SLD

Nice notes. Yes this is a very nice wine to bad I drank my last one a few years ago.

I opened this wine last night with some Porterhouse steaks. This wine is about as dark as a wine can get, extremely concentrated. It has a huge amount of cassis on the nose which was quite appealing. I couldn't keep my nose out of the glass even when I wasn't sipping. I saw no evidence of bricking around the edges. Ripe cassis flavors with the same touch of saddle leather that Seaquam noted above. This wine still has some life to it; I'd say can easily last another 5 years if properly stored. I'd give it 93-94 points. We'll see if Laube rates it next year for the 10-year anniversary.

Agree with the above. I have 3 of the 6 I purchased on release and I drank a bottle several weeks ago. Fantastic. Suspect it will hang nicely into 2010' or so but I doubt I will have any left to see if it does...