Shafer Vineyards in Napa produces a meticulous red
Photo credit: AP, 2006 | Winemaker Doug Shafer pours a Shafer Vineyards wine during a Napa Valley wine auction in St. Helena, Calif.
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For Shafer Vineyards, 2012 was a vintage year -- in the bottle and on the page.
The Napa winery's 2008 Relentless, a concentrated syrah that's a taste of California by way of the Rhone Valley, was named wine of the year in Wine Spectator magazine. It's a meticulously made red.
And the University of California Press published "A Vineyard in Napa" ($29.95), by Doug Shafer, with Andy Demsky....
