2019 Maybach Family Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Vocabulum

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 95.2 points

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  1/31/2024 - Jimaronson Likes this wine: 97 Points

  The wine is dense, full bodied, sweet blue and black fruit, silky, and a two minute finish. What a wine! The vineyard is one of my favorites and David Abreu did wonders with his version over the years. Now, it is being made by TRB under Maybach and that is just terrific. It is time to open one if you have a couple of bottles.

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  1/30/2024 - Mark1npt Likes this wine: 96 Points

  James' 2nd wine for tonight, decanted 3 hours then served to us blind.
  
  Dark purple in the glass, weighty, and shimmering. Regal nose, (whatever that is?) it just felt and smelled 'classy'. Black cherry fruit and vanilla.
  
  Palate was dense with blackberry, and a smooth rounded feel and complex and l-o-n-g finish. Reminded me of a Harlan Estate I recently had the good fortune to partake in. 96-97 most of the evening, turned blacker near the end and was JUST OK at 93........

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  1/13/2024 - RMundell Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Really well made wine. Tight after a short decant. Open up in glass very nicely. Needs more time in the bottle but really impressive.

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  3/9/2022 - msuwine wrote: 94 Points

  Maybach is probably the most forward and modern Napa Cabernet that I love - yes, it pushes the limits of ripeness and tannin management (i.e., the bogeymen of the purists of “classic” Cabernet) - but these wines just taste so damn good. This guilty pleasure has now collided with one of my favorite vineyards in all of Napa - i.e., the location previously known as Thorevilos, now known as Ecotone or, in Maybach’s nomenclature, Vocabulum (the names clearly not improving, even if the vineyard has not changed). In short, I approached this wine with the worry that the polish of TRB would wipe clean the uniqueness of the site (whatever it’s called).
  
  I was pleasantly surprised, especially with a few hours of air. This wine is ripe and chocolatey, to be sure, but it has an earthy undertone that is impressive, the old site peaking out underneath the new oak. Dark purple, almost black in color and full in body, the wine offers aromas of black cherry, blueberry, anise, and peppercorn. The flavors are generous (e.g., boysenberry, mocha, insert your TRB descriptor here), with a savory note (e.g., graphite, tapenade) I don’t remember in many young wines from TRB or Maybach. 14.9% alcohol. 93-94 at the moment, but I’d wait another few years on this one. Decanting an hour helped, but it lost some precision at the three-hour mark - so just wait until 2024 or longer.

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  4/3/2021 - LiteItOnFire Likes this wine:

  Dream Trip - Napa On A Mission - All My favorites Plus A Few New Ones; 4/1/2021-4/4/2021 (Napa Valley): Who knew one of my favorite vineyards got their hands on Thorevilos... wow this I had to see (or smell/taste in this case).
  
  Ok so you take one of your favorite wineries and pair it with one of your absolute favorite vineyards and put a very talented winemaker at the Helm (very different style than BG so was unsure how this would turnout) and what do you get- either a work in progress as new vineyard manager and winemaker tinker for the first few years as to better understand the opportunity or a home run right out of the gates. In this case it’s the later, the wine is absolutely delicious yet very different than Abreu Thorevilos. It’s very much a TRB wine with the Thorevilos vineyard in the background... way to early to tell what the final blend and wine will be as I can’t figure out what this will become in bottle. What I can say is I will take my full allocation and pop one of these immediately- it will be the wine I am most interested in tasting upon arrival. This has everything one would want in a TRB mashed with Thorevilos - excellent. Won't rate due to small sample size and not enough time to allow it air- we just could not put this wine down (similar impression on great wine for all three wines).

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