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| Community Tasting Notes (average 93.4 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 129 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by ChrisR on 4/11/2024: Last of my original stash, first bottling available to the mailing list. Recent notes basically spot on. Bright blackberry and black current, with a little licorice and tobacco and spice on the finish. Soft, as you might expect at this age, but still with substantial lift and energy: the tannins have all but receded, and the structure is mostly acid. Shows most of the TRB markers. An easy wine to drink, very tasty, missing the concentration to really elevate the wine. (151 views) | | | Tasted by Deryl on 4/9/2024 & rated 96 points: This bottle was sublime. TRB at the top of his craft. Everything in balance and beautifully aged. I could not ask for more out of a Napa Cab. I only wish I had bought more on release.
This was decanted for about an hour before drinking.
I don't see any benefit to more aging. (139 views) | | | Tasted by hrazdiiv on 6/5/2022 & rated 92 points: Really eager to try this bottle, purchased upon release. Well made, with nice structure. Still showing inky purple out of the bottle, virtually no bricking. Nose interesting combination of primary and secondary with black currant, dark cherry followed by sweet tobacco and a bit of espresso. Easy to place as California. Not a lot of tannin on the palate, shaved down by judicious use of oak and, of course, 18 years of bottle age. But still showed well, all elements nicely integrated. Definitely still has some legs to age here, though soft tannin suggests another 5 or so years of peak window. We drank among a series of other top shelf wines so perhaps got lost in the shuffle a bit (and we were several in at this point), wouldn’t argue with a slightly higher score for fans of the genre. But not sure it’s worth todays prices. (1190 views) | | | Tasted by DesMarteau on 3/4/2022 & rated 96 points: So approachable ….15 mins of air in a decanter and it’s rocking . Plum , blueberry , stones , hint of vanilla and cinnamon …leather …long finish (1377 views) | | | Tasted by Rick 4 Wine on 12/25/2020 & rated 96 points: I last tried this wine five years and change ago, and it has really developed. From a juice bomb (think buxom college girl) to a gorgeous MILF. This wine is just superbly balanced and so much better than it was in its youth. Delicious! Fruit is still plentiful but well balanced with a heterogenous tannic structure and secondary flavors with tertiary starting to develop on the back palate and finish, akin to the way black truffle lingers. Wonderful spot here. Enjoy!! (1909 views) | | | Tasted by jgreco on 11/26/2020 & rated 93 points: The 2004 Maybach Materium features sweet cassis, no. 2 pencil, tobacco leaf, and vanilla on the nose. Smooth and velvety, with quite a bit of sweetness that persists through the lengthy finish. You are going to need to decant this for sediment before drinking. I would drink any remaining bottles up over the next few years. (1900 views) | | | Tasted by chiefilliniboy on 9/21/2018 & rated 93 points: smooth, velvety. fruit faded as it decanted, found the sweet spot after about 3 hours and became well balanced. almost black. probably the most sediment I've ever had in a bottle. (2915 views) | | | Tasted by NTR on 6/29/2018 & rated 93 points: Solid dark red/black color. Nose of plum, dark fruit, tobacco, vanilla, oak. On drinking, the telltale vanillaso prevelant in Maybachs seems tempered here (but it is still there). Well balanced. A little hot on alcohol. Still has many more years. Very pleasant but a little underwhelming for a Maybach and a TRB wine. Solid but not a rockstar.
Battled between 93 and 94but decided on the lower.
Drinking well now but try again in 2020- it has legs. (2531 views) | | | Tasted by tcarter on 8/29/2017 & rated 94 points: Gitter's 50th Bday Dinner (Marino Ristorante): A bit jammy and sweet, even with 12 years age. (3788 views) | | | Tasted by onboisduvin on 4/23/2017 & rated 90 points: Fruity, not too oaky with tannin quite smooth. Young but ready to drink. (2844 views) | | | Tasted by Loren Sonkin on 11/2/2015 & rated 94 points: Browns suck, Wines Don't (Volume 15:6) Maybach, Bevan (Our home): Pop and pour. Consumed over a few hours watching the Browns lose to the Cardinals. Purple in color, ruby at the rim. No real sign of age. The nose takes some coaxing but after about an hour of air it is very nice. Cassis, iodine, spice, slight leather. With air some cherries come out. Oddly, at the three hour mark some aquarium notes emerge but swirling wakes the wine up and removes them. On the palate, this is very good. Not quite the texture of some later vintages. Lots of cassis, slight spice and vanilla. It shows a tight complexity. The tannins are light. Not sure this will improve from here, but its not going downhill any time soon either. IIRC, this was the first vintage. Heck of a start! (4867 views) | | | Tasted by Rick 4 Wine on 10/17/2015 & rated 94 points: Something of a juice bomb with big oak and smoked meats developing from nose through early finish. Tannins are still tight in the early body and linger for thirty seconds although fruit drowns them out in mid-palette. (3708 views) | | | Tasted by Wine_lvr on 7/5/2015 & rated 93 points: 4th of July BBQ with Friends and good wine; 7/4/2015-7/5/2015 (Zurich, Switzerland): Seved blind. I initially guessed a 2007 or 2008 Shiraz. Was I wrong...! Dark color. Nose shows sweet dark fruit, mint and dark 90% chocolate with hints of pepper. Still quite a chubby baby with an enormous potential. Decant or better wait 5 more years... (3939 views) | | | Tasted by Wine_lvr on 12/22/2014 & rated 94 points: Tasted blind: Still quite dark in color. I did not expect it to be a 10-year old wine. Nose of dark fruit, tobacco, herbs and plums. Still tannic and youthful but already great to drink. The wine is elegant and has a great length, is mulitlayered and powerful. A superb showing for the first vintage of Maybach. Drink now - 2025 (3559 views) | | | Tasted by KenK on 11/1/2014 & rated 93 points: Nice rich red driven fruits, good sweet tannins and nice zippy edge. Fruits speak of high quality, yet just slightly reserved relative to my expectations. Drinking fine, but don't foresee big improvement ahead either. (3592 views) | | | Tasted by budman on 7/6/2014 & rated 94 points: No sign of this bottle going downhill. Yum!!! (3130 views) | | | Tasted by King Cab on 6/25/2014 & rated 91 points: I the most advanced example I have had of this yet. 10 years on and it shows. At first I thought I might have had a flawed bottle but within 5 minutes it bloomed nicely, just not Maybach nicely.
Nose of dried black currants and pencil shavings. This was a very fragile seeming wine with an elegance that I did enjoy. It seemed some secondaries & tertiaries have crept in. An interesting mix of black and red fruits all leaning to the dry side rolled this forward to a decent balance and a tannin structure that I may be a bit dismayed to say could be hitting a wall. Worn leather, cedar box, blah blah blah…. :)
Finish was decent and overall impression was, yeah, it’s a good cab. Others (more 'worldly' tasters) at the table seemed to like this better than I today so what do I know. I have 3 more that I would drink earlier than later, hopefully finding some TRB distinctiveness in there again.
I know, keep your opinions to yourself, Mike. :) (3410 views) | | | Tasted by Cow Town on 6/16/2014 & rated 93 points: Drank blind alongside six other 2004s. I was struck by the balance of this wine. Nobody picked this as a Mayback or a TRB wine. Layers or smooth textured fruit, with a nice mix of vanilla and brown sugar sweetness. Lovely wine. (3068 views) | | | Tasted by 3daywinereview.com on 3/23/2014 & rated 88 points: Awesome Napa Cabernet Tasting (Hillside, Montelena, Mayback and more) (Minneapolis, MN): Not a fan at all. The most boring wine of the night and didn't have much of an identity. Blueberries, spices and oak. Too much oak. Decanted several hours and glass one and two didn't change for the better. Sit on it for five years and hope it gets better. (3242 views) | | | Tasted by rocknroller on 3/22/2014 & rated 90 points: Hi End Napa Cabs with an Haut Brion Kicker (Gary's Place, Hudson, WI): Very dark red-purple color. Decanted for 2 hours plus. Followed two pours of 2 oz over 2.5 hours. This suffered by comparison, and maybe would have been better as a stand alone wine. The nose is oaky, plum, vanilla, sweet, black raspberry. The palate strikes me as very young, would not peg this as 10 years old, lots of oak, wood, spice, big black fruit, concentrated, full bodied and firm tannins. Not so sure this will come around, but it needs time to try. (3052 views) | | | Tasted by H*3 on 2/14/2014 & rated 95 points: Love this wine! Inky dark purple in the glass. Great blue and black fruit flavors and silky mouthfeel with incredible balance given the overall richness of the wine. Very long and lingering finish. Last bottle of '04, wish I had more... (2327 views) | | | Tasted by pjhr on 2/8/2014 & rated 94 points: Continues to evolve beautifully since my last bottle two years ago. (2281 views) | | | Tasted by apounds on 12/27/2013: This has all the attributes of a great cab. There is no rush to drink it now but, if you do, I don't think you'll be disappointed. (2559 views) | | | Tasted by G-Man555 on 9/22/2013 & rated 95 points: Awesome fruit, structure, and nose, drinking well (2908 views) | | | Tasted by runandshoot on 9/7/2013 & rated 95 points: Good bouquet of blue and black fruits on the nose, inky dark purple in the glass. Really nice pop and pour with a little bit of heat on the finish, but definitely much nicer after about an hour of slow-ox. No noticable oak, no heat, and great dark fruit, blackberry and rasberry with full mid-palate and a long, lingering finish. Really strong showing by this one today! (2810 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
| By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (5/19/2007)
(Maybach Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Materium) Dark cherry red color; tight cherry nose; good, tight, cherry and cassis palate with sweet firm tannins; medium-plus finish 93 points |
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| 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)Oakville |
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