2006 One Point Five® Cabernet Sauvignon Stags Leap District
Release date: March 1, 2009
Suggested California retail: $70
“[Shafer produces] Cabernet that defines the Stags Leap District.” – Wine & Spirits magazine
Shafer Vineyards is pleased to announce the release of 2006 One Point Five Stags Leap District Cabernet Sauvignon, a wine that signals a return to the winery’s roots.
“A Stags Leap District Cabernet was our first wine back in 1978,” says Doug Shafer, president, Shafer Vineyards. “This is our home. This is the place we know best and the fruit we’ve been cultivating for more than 30 years.”
The Shafer family purchased their Napa Valley hillside estate in 1972, a property that had been the site of wine grape cultivation since the 1880s. John Shafer planted Cabernet Sauvignon on the property in the early and mid-1970s and from those vines made his first wine in 1978.
Shafer released that first vintage (100 percent Cabernet Sauvignon) in 1981 and Doug Shafer joined his father at the winery, as winemaker, just two years later.
“Dad and I learned the wine business together,’ says Doug. “At some point we coined the phrase ‘a generation-and-a-half’ to describe our partnership because it wasn’t the classic second-generation story where a parent hands off an established, profitable family business to a son or daughter. We were both here in the fingers-crossed days when no one was sure the winery would be a success.”
The One Point Five label takes its name from the generation-and-a-half idea.
One Point Five is sourced primarily from two Stags Leap District vineyards – Shafer’s hillside estate and the Borderline vineyard located two miles south of the winery, a 25-acre site purchased by the winery in 1999.
Of the 2006 One Point Five, Shafer winemaker Elias Fernandez says, “Aromas of warm black fruit, cedar, chocolate, and dried herbs, followed by rich, juicy flavors of blackberry, dark chocolate, and tobacco, with a nice long finish. The tannins are ripe and supple”
2006 One Point Five Cabernet Sauvignon Stags Leap District is released with a suggested California retail price of $70.
“…2006 offers delicious red currant and black cherry fruit interwoven with notions of loamy soil and spring flowers. It is an elegant, stylish effort to enjoy over the next 10-15 years.”
— Robert M. Parker, Jr., The Wine Advocate
Related Links
| 2006 One Point Five Fact Sheet One Point Five — A Generation-and-a Half Story 2009 Current Releases |
Shafer Brochure Finding Our Wines Robert M. Parker Jr.’s The Wine Advocate, December 2008 |
2006 One Point Five® – Reviews
“...2006 offers delicious red currant and black cherry fruit interwoven with notions of loamy soil and spring flowers. It is an elegant, stylish effort to enjoy over the next 10-15 years.”
– Robert M. Parker, Jr., The Wine Advocate
“...the texture, that signal aspect of [Stags Leap District] fruit, is layered and as rich as French roast coffee, with an underlying tension that keeps the wine focused on high-toned red fruit, dark earth and violet scents. It’s powerful and guarded when first poured, growing sleek and classical with a day of air. This should drink increasingly well over the next ten years.”
– Wine & Spirits
“Expressive, rather wild nose melds cassis, black cherry, tobacco, iron, mocha, leather and brown spices ... suave and vinous with good cut and life to the varietally typical flavors of currant, leather, mocha and tobacco leaf ... finishes with firm, building tannins and sneaky length.”
– International Wine Cellar, Steve Tanzer
“Shafer, one of the most respected names in the California wine industry, has released the 2006 Shafer One Point Five ... Capable of aging very well into the next decade, even now the wine is elegant with its soft tannins, rich fruit and silky finish ... this remarkable red begs to be paired with prime tenderloin or rack of lamb.”
– Bob Hosman, South Florida Sun Sentinal
“... cedary blackberry fruit aroma with hints of tobacco, dark chocolate …full body; forward, rich, concentrated, dark berry fruit flavors ...”
– California Grapevine
“... rich, dark cherry fruit and chocolate-laden mocha melodies that are texturally supported by malleable tannins and a well-sustained, velvety finish.”
– About.com, Wine of the Week
2006 One Point Five® – Downloads
Shafer Brochure
One Point Five — A Generation-and-a Half Story
2009 Current
2006 One Point Five Fact Sheet
2006 One Point Five Press Release,
March 2008
Robert M. Parker Jr.’s The Wine Advocate, December 2008
One Point Five® – Our Generation-and-a-Half Video
In our premier online video, John and Doug Shafer tell why the term "second generation" didn't describe their long partnership and why they had to coin their own phrase, "a generation-and-a-half" from which One Point Five gets its name.
Getting back to Our Roots In Stags Leap District
John and Doug Shafer describe the early challenges of finding enough Cabernet Sauvignon
fruit in the tiny Stags Leap District. Their solution? To purchase a new Stags Leap District
vineyard in 1999, which, along with the Hillside Estate Vineyard, became the predominant
source for the new One Point Five.
