Community Tasting Notes 19

• VinhoVerde Likes this wine: 93 points

  December 17, 2023 - Medium red with mahogany highlights. Balsamic, black currant bouquet. Soft , smooth flavor. Beautiful drinking now, but I’d drink it soon. Good length.
  Beginning to show a little age and declining fruit. Still, the remaining fruit is ripe and almost sweet.
  This held up much better than I thought it would.

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• oldwines Likes this wine: 94 points

  December 24, 2022 - In my cellar since release. This was the last vintage made largely by Randy Dunn at Camus before he left to start his own label in 1985. Fresh and youthful for a 38 year old. Medium garnet with ever so slight bricked edge. Rich, soft and complex with good depth and length. Layers of spice, chocolate, blackberry, cassis and touches of cedar, coffee and tobacco. Beautifully balanced and elegant. My last bottle of a full case purchased on release for ~$42. Lovely and by no means over the hill.

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• Hawkeye_Addict Likes this wine: 93 points

  July 3, 2022 - Clearly past its prime, but thoroughly enjoyable. The color is fairly brown, light reddish. Prune and raisin. Decanted for an hour. Vinegar initially, but faded after a while and turned very pleasant. Cheers!

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• jviz wrote: 95 points

  August 15, 2021 - This had been kept in a cold cellar, purchased on release. We popped and poured into the decanter, then finished over an hour or so. It could have used more time as the wine still needed to open a bit, but this bottle was unusually dark purple in color, with fairly classic notes of cassis and blackberry fruit. Still some fine firm tannin left, perhaps not surprising as the wine was made by Randy Dunn, I’m told.

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• napasoutherner Likes this wine: 93 points

  September 29, 2014 - Musty nose. Wine definitely at peak or beyond but still a good wine with bordeaux texture. Not the strongest wine tasted in this dinner. An '87 Dominus just killed it, so did an '83 Spottswoode. But the Caymus held up well.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1984
• Type Red
• Producer Caymus
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation Special Selection
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley

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• Pending Delivery 2 (1%)
• In Cellars 202 (67%)
• Consumed 96 (32%)

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