2006 Mayacamas Vineyards Merlot

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 90.3 points

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  10/14/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 91 Points

  This pours deep ruby in the glass with touches of purple. The nose is deep, rich and dark fruited showing cassis, blackberry, crushed gravel, and tobacco. The palate is still tightly coiled with super rich and concentrated dark fruit on entry with medium plus tannin and medium plus acid. The finish goes quite tart and bitter on dark berry seed notes along the finish. All in all this is a traditionally styled mountain merlot with all the depth and structure you'd expect. The only challenge for here is were about 10 - 20 years too early on it. I'd expect improvement and it to pick up a few points as it ages, which is seems well poised to do.

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  4/27/2022 - rmcnees wrote: 89 Points

  Dark garnet purple colored, medium full bodied, round, concentrated full black berry fruits with notes of bramble, smoke, pepper, spice and hint of tobacco with tangy acidity on the tongue puckering lingering finish. There was a fair amount of sediment that I should have strained or decanted off but in the simplicity of the evening, I simply popped and poured.
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  6/22/2018 - Cosmo M. Likes this wine: 91 Points

  3rd of 4 bottles and we will likely drink the last soon as the wine is drinking extremely well. Worried at first as the cork absolutely disintegrated and we needed to pour trough cheese cloth. As soon as the wine was in the glass, though, the incredibly expressive aromas sifted out cleanly - mint, berries, lavender, vanilla, pepper, tobacco. Bright acidity on the palate, almost too much but the complexity of flavor catches up and rounds it out.

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  4/14/2018 - jeffal66 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Vigorous, alive wine, showing no diminishing signs after a dozen years of age. Impressive acid, expressive fruit (red mixed with blue/black), earthiness, good length, intensity. Such impressive winemaking. Great steak wine, and shows well after several hours of air. Tons of residue.

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  2/27/2018 - Cosmo M. Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Has matured nicely since the last bottle we drank in late 2016. Opens up pleasantly with fresh strawberry and mint, through earth and minerals mid-palate, and light smooth tannin. Medium bodied. Nice balanced acidity on the finish. I think this is at its peak or close.

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