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| Community Tasting Notes (average 91.4 pts. and median of 91 pts. in 18 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by JSiedlecki on 5/6/2024 & rated 92 points: Dried cherry, raisin, tea, licorice, graphite. Very smooth and silky. Medium body/tannin/acidity. Typical brick red aged coloring. (52 views) | | | Tasted by JRockEsq on 6/25/2023 & rated 91 points: Bay laurel, graphite, cigar box, dried cherry, leather; dry; medium body; medium- chalky tannin; medium acidity (493 views) | | | Tasted by Jjpt1785 on 11/24/2022: Ah so got the cork out in one piece! Almost soaked through, fair amount of sediment. Still has a great color, not too bricky.
Singing after 45 minutes or so in a aerated decanter
Nose opened up to a floral bouquet
Still had fruit flavor but tertiary took over. Almost meaty in a sense
I'm newer to wines and haven't tried anything this old before
A Happy Thanksgiving it was! (683 views) | | | Tasted by Burgundy Al on 10/10/2020 flawed bottle: The Last Dance Magnum Dinner (The Krengels - Bannockburn IL): Magnum. Corked. (2626 views) | | | Tasted by Maphill01 on 10/5/2019: MBH wedding. Drinking beautifully (1698 views) | | | Tasted by Burgnick on 12/12/2018 & rated 94 points: My first time trying a 70s mayacamas. The hype is real. This is what a great aged napa can be like. Very silky with weightless power while showing earth, dark fruit, tea and cedar. So delicate and smooth. I loved the fact that the wine did not have the typical napa ripeness. It was balanced, ethereal and precise. (2418 views) | | | Tasted by clayfu on 3/28/2018: Heitz Martha's vertical 74-77 with an absolutely CURSED line up of chardonnay. (Major Domo): Oh boy this wine was good. An absolute beast of a wine. Brawny and structured with thick tannins and dark oozing black fruit. Needed as much time as it could get to open up. Becomes really fresh and filled with juicy dark fruit mixed with cigar and spice. While the Heitz Martha's next to it were more a representation of California with riper red fruit and sweeter noses, the 79 Mayacamas could have fooled me as a top flight bordeaux. Still has years to go. (3550 views) | | | Tasted by tinybubbles on 3/14/2016 & rated 90 points: Still surprisingly young. Rich cherry and blackberry, strong soil elements, Consumed with rock shrimp in mole sauce. Mole paired quite well with the paprika and dried chile notes on the nose of the wine. Would give pristine bottles another few years in the cellar before consuming. Lacked one level of depth and refinement when compared to the best Mayacamas vintages of the 70s. 90+ (3190 views) | | | Tasted by rossi.wine on 5/30/2015 & rated 92 points: Drank next to 1979 Clerc Milon and La Gaffeliere. Good colour, easily the youngest in appearance, slightly vegetal on the nose, spicy, quite complex. Good texture still, good fruit, spicy, fresh and lively. Slightly drying, lingering finish. Great bottle - has some life left in it. 91-93 (3013 views) | | | Tasted by Pknut on 7/18/2014: There was some decent dried strawberry and woodsy spice notes, but under a musty top layer. Brad and I thought there was some TCA here. Friday at Sarah's apartment. (3433 views) | | | Tasted by eric@cwm on 4/26/2014 & rated 96 points: Showing a very youthful dark garnet color, with only slight thinning around the edges. Explosive aromas of dark cherry, cocoa, and spice. This looks and tastes like a wine half its age. Juicy black cherry on the palate gives way to layers of ginger, cocoa and spice. This has broad tannic structure, but mostly integrated. Many years left. It is a revelation. Reminds me of a much younger Dominus. (3289 views) | | | Tasted by zscheiner on 7/3/2013 & rated 92 points: Blind Tasting '70-'81 Mayacamas Cabernets (Tom's House, Palo Alto, CA): Savory, spicy nose. Youthful, black currant, amazing amount of black fruit with plenty of acidity. (my 7th, group's 2nd) (2992 views) | | | Tasted by europat55 on 7/3/2013 & rated 84 points: 1970-1981 Mayacamas Cabs (Tasted blind) (Tom's house in Palo Alto, California): Not so nice nose, lot's of heat (B-). Weird palate (B).
My #9, Group's #2 (90 pts). Tasted blind. (4199 views) | | | Tasted by rjonwine@gmail.com on 7/3/2013 & rated 91 points: Slightly bricking dark red violet color; lifted, weedy, celery seed, cassis nose; mature, ripe red currant, raspberry palate; on the decline but with sweet fruit still, could go up to 5 years; medium-plus finish 91+ points (724 views) | | | Tasted by pmevans on 11/27/2008 & rated 91 points: Still holding up very well, lovely nose, not showing elevated tannins like some others have noticed. I'd say this could easily hold another few years. Level was top/upper shoulder. Long finish, still plenty of fruit. (3006 views) | | | Tasted by psmith on 2/16/2008: Deep red and black fruits. Firm, minty notes, with a hard, tannic finish that probably won't ever subside. Grainy. Great nose, palate doesn't quite deliver, but enjoyable overall. (2686 views) | | | Tasted by MicklethePickle on 2/16/1990 & rated 91 points: With K, Brett, Diane and Tracy at Ricardo's in San Rafael at dinner (pizza). Deep, dark ruby. No sign of age. Wonderful minty, chocolatey aroma. On the palate, firmly structured fruit, rich, elegant, with great balance. Flavors are great throughout. Tannins bode well for extended aging. 5-12-16-8: 91/100. (1074 views) |
| By John Gilman
View From the Cellar, Jan/Feb 2008, Issue #13, Mayacamas Vineyards: California’s Greatest Cabernet Producer
(Mayacamas Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon) Login and sign up and see review text. | By Richard Jennings
RJonWine.com (7/3/2013)
(Mayacamas Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon) Slightly bricking dark red violet color; lifted, weedy, celery seed, cassis nose; mature, ripe red currant, raspberry palate; on the decline but with sweet fruit still, could go up to 5 years; medium-plus finish 91+ points 91 points |
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A visit to Mayacamas Vineyards and Winery -https://unwindwine.blogspot.com/2011/04/mt-veeder-appellation-trail-mayacamas.html
Historic Winery VisitCabernet 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 CaliforniaNapa Valley.http://www.stagecoachvineyard.com/vineyards/our_vineyards.php
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