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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94.9 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 49 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Acohen on 5/15/2024 & rated 94 points: Rich sweet currant with chocolate, mocha and integrated tannin (71 views) | | | Tasted by GFischmann on 3/22/2024 & rated 95 points: Drinking perfectly!
Dark fruit with good balance in acidity and tannins.
Good secondary and tertiary notes (435 views) | | | Tasted by MAXIMUM SATISFACTION on 11/29/2023 & rated 95 points: The 2044 drinking window here is funny. This is ready to go now. Sweet/ripe raspberry, plum, new leather and mineral. Not super complex but delicious. (959 views) | | | Tasted by Acohen on 11/19/2023 & rated 94 points: Rich sweet currant with chocolate, mocha and integrated tannin (734 views) | | | Tasted by Acohen on 11/18/2023 & rated 95 points: Great cab with cassis, plum, currant, chocolate and rich tannins (632 views) | | | Tasted by Acohen on 11/18/2023 & rated 94 points: Sweet plum, currant and great tannins (651 views) | | | Tasted by gharter on 4/20/2023 & rated 96 points: PnP. Inky purple. Opened with a deep, rich aroma with blackberry, cassis, earth, leather, pencil shavings, light herb. Layers of flavor with blackberry, cassis, leather, earth, a touch of herbal. Medium to full body, great balance. Long smooth finish with silky tannins showing up. Showing really well now, but should hold/improve easily another decade, plus. (1116 views) | | | Tasted by Acohen on 1/23/2023 & rated 94 points: Classic Napa with currant, plum, earth and leather and great finish (696 views) | | | Tasted by Acohen on 1/23/2023 & rated 94 points: Dark rich blue fruit, chocolate and graphite (776 views) | | | Tasted by BDBoles on 11/19/2022: Perfectly aged with plenty of tanins left leaving a very well balanced wine. (752 views) | | | Tasted by GFischmann on 9/9/2022 & rated 96 points: Perfect, balance dark fruit with a city and tannins . The oak is in good balance to tertiary flavors of soil and leather (957 views) | | | Tasted by mdvillaverde on 8/21/2022 & rated 95 points: Consistent with past note (926 views) | | | Tasted by Elkcims on 1/20/2022 & rated 96 points: 6 hour slow ox at 60. Decided I needed to pop one before deciding on ordering the 2019 release. Delightful, pure deep dark berries with a very light touch of coffee, licorice notes. Soft mellow tannins and full bodied. I'd say I hit the sweet spot at age 8. Although not a value wine, the $150 release price was worthy of the experience. It's $175 for the 2019. (1421 views) | | | Tasted by rpenn77 on 10/7/2021 & rated 94 points: Rich dark fruit with a long finish (1406 views) | | | Tasted by Elkcims on 3/5/2021 & rated 95 points: Very young wine, full of intense, lush fruit. Very dark cherry with kirsch and subtle licorice. (1836 views) | | | Tasted by Tubulus on 8/31/2020: Certainly well made, not a hint of heat, but not really my style. Of TRB wines I've tried I get more pleasure from Rivers Marie at half the price. (1938 views) | | | Tasted by BigTex22 on 5/16/2020 & rated 95 points: Very well crafted wine, but in a style I reach for less these days. Lots of pencil lead and sawdust on the nose, followed by deep blue fruit. Everything in check with nothing poking out, despite the 14.6% ABV. This wine is very young and should last another 10+ years easily. (2140 views) | | | Tasted by GFischmann on 3/13/2020 & rated 96 points: Still young but intense dark fruit, but effect of oak s as bd early earthy tones (1849 views) | | | Tasted by Yack Man on 12/8/2019 & rated 97 points: This is my first time trying Maybach and this bottle of wine was fantastic. Although not given sufficient breathing time, this vintage was pretty much ready to with a pop of the cork. It opens with an intense, powerful floral nose and on the palate, big, full bodied with very nice concentration. The taste, a display of powerful dark Cabernet grape flavors that explode beautifully on the pallet: Crème de cassis, black and blueberry fruits, currants, some oak with excellent structure, extraction and perfect acidity. As stated, this was my first experience with Maybach, but it won’t be my last. Excellent wine 96+ - 97 points and perhaps better adequate decanting. (2629 views) | | | Tasted by mdvillaverde on 3/9/2019 & rated 96 points: Thought I might be able to hold this one longer but couldn't wait. Been meaning to trying this winemaker for a while. Quite impressed. The wine needed only just over an hour out of the bottle to open up. Intense, pure, laser beam of fruit. Chewy. Ripe berry. I've often liked Calistoga wines. This is a Jan 2019 tasting. (2395 views) | | | Tasted by WineForRob on 1/27/2019 & rated 96 points: This is in a real nice spot right now. Heavy black fruited nose with some forest floor and road tar. Silky smooth mouth feel with still enough acidity to be very fresh and energetic. Sweet tannins glide you through to a long smooth finish. Made a 14 Del Dotto Villa De Lago seem like a house wine. (2492 views) | | | Tasted by zding on 1/14/2019 & rated 95 points: Fruity opening on nose, red fruits, mint. Silky tannin and long finish. (2349 views) | | | Tasted by mikemboutiquewines on 11/18/2017 & rated 99 points: Utterly fantastic in every way and a very long life ahead! Bravo!! (3442 views) | | | Tasted by msuwine on 6/27/2017 & rated 94 points: This plush and modern wine is tasty and complex, but I had hoped for something more profound and enticing. It felt like paying a bunch of money expecting to see Bruce Springsteen in concert - and then having John Mellencamp show up. It's fine, even good, but it's not great - and it's a bit disappointing given my (perhaps too) high expectations for my first Maybach red.
Dark purple in color, full in body, nose of plum and graphite, with a whiff of burnt wood. Tastes of black cherry, dark chocolate, sage, and rosemary, with a pleasant and lingering finish. 14.6% alcohol. I can't tell if it's still coiled up or if there's a little thinness in the mid-palate, though the winery's reputation makes me think the former. Drinking it over five hours didn't change much, but my guess is that this will open (and soften) up some over the next year or two.
I'm not giving up on Maybach yet, but this wine was considerably less ready than many 2013's I've adored at this price point (e.g., Realm, Carter, Fait-Main, Memento Mori). It's good, no doubt, but the question is whether it's worth it: something I'll test with my other bottle in 2018 or 2019. (4495 views) | | | Tasted by WineGold on 5/21/2017 & rated 95 points: This is wine is a story of two days for us. We drank this next to a 2014 Becklyn Reserve.
One day one, this Amoenus started off muted and green. The fruit was very quiet. But there was lots of earth, green pepper, and tannin. The Becklyn conversely was all fruit early on. Layered and excellent.
On Day two both wines completely reversed themselves. The Amoenus evolved amazingly. Bursting with layered fruit on the nose and palate. The blue and black fruit is huge, and the finish goes 45 seconds of so. Meanwhile, the Becklyn has gone the other direction. It has shut down somewhat and the fruit has either evolved away or has become overwhelmed by the tanin. It's still there, but about 50% less. Lots of black pepper. The Maybach, on the other hand, has two or three times the fruit, layers, nuance and balance on the second day. It had pretty much none of this on day one.
So, day one score for the Amoenus was a 90-91. Day two: 95.
Wait on this one. For a year or two, of for a day or two after opening.
Just a postscript comparing his Amoenus to the Materium. The Materium is our favorite wine of all wines, for nearly a decade now, and we find it to be in a league of its own. The Amoenus is a very good wine, but the Materium is a singular wine. They come from two different single vineyards, so this makes sense. (3400 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| Maybach Family Vineyards Producer websiteCabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)CalistogaDiamond mountain |
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