One of the world’s, as well as Napa’s, most profound CabernetSauvignons is the 2,000 or so case production of Shafer’s HillsideSelect. Made from their finest parcels in Stags Leap, the wine spendsnearly 32 months in 100% new oak. This is a wine that usually has 20-30years of aging potential. The 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Hillside Selectis showing even better than it did last year. A much sexier, opulent,flamboyant style of wine with notes of black currant liqueur intermixedwith toasty new oak, charcoal, smoke, barbecue spices, and oodles offruit, this wine has fabulous richness in an exuberant, sexy style, anda long, heady layered finish with nothing out of balance. Theintegration of acidity, tannin, wood, and alcohol are brilliant. Thisis a great wine to drink over the next two decades, if not longer. Robert Parker.