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Editorial profile
Shafer Vineyards farms hillside estate vines in the Stags Leap District, on a property that has grown grapes since 1880. John Shafer, a Chicago publishing executive, bought the site in 1972 and began planting Cabernet Sauvignon on its hillsides, making the winery's first vintage in 1978.
His son Doug Shafer joined as winemaker in 1983, and Elias Fernandez, who arrived the following year as assistant winemaker, became winemaker in 1994 and remains in that role today. That long partnership built Hillside Select, the estate's benchmark Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Winemaker
- Elias Fernandez
Facts read from shafervineyards.com
What's on file
founded
as stated by the producer
Address
6154 SILVERADO TRL
Varieties
Where it's registered
Hovering a shaded region names it; a click opens its page.
- Principal6154 SILVERADO TRL, NAPA
The ground it sits on
Sub-AVA · Stags Leap District
6.2
pH, 1:1 water
15.5cm
, whole profile
144cm
to
Well drained
, dominant condition
Distribution across 26 · mean ◆, median │, p10–p90 bar
Dominant
- 31.5%
- 15.9%
- 12.3%
- 7.5%
- 6.8%
26 map units · soil described over 97.9% of the region’s area · 9.8% is water, rock outcrop or other non-soil · 44% of the described area has a restrictive layer within the profile.
Wines
Cabernet Sauvignon · Stags Leap District
named on producer's history page; full product page is a JS storefront (Commerce7) with no server-rendered wine names
One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Sauvignon · Stags Leap District
flagship tier, from own knowledge; site's wine list renders client-side only
TD-9
red blend named for a tractor model; components not verified against a fetched page
Relentless
Syrah-based red; components not verified against a fetched page
Red Shoulder Ranch Chardonnay
1 of 5 wines link to the page they were read from. The list is what a producer publishes about itself, one citation at a time — it is not a catalog, and a wine missing from it is uncurated rather than unmade.