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• JRockEsq Likes this wine: 87 points

  October 10, 2020 - Method: blind; Cab glass; 62 degrees
  
  Look: medium garnet with a bit of browning; a lot of very fast legs
  
  Nose: jalapeno, paprika, sun dried tomato, cedar; nice, expressive nose
  
  Palate: jalapeno, sun dried tomato, paprika, light sour cherry, bitter sweet chocolate; medium- finish of pepper, sour cherry, and celery; medium- body; medium- rough, drying tannin; medium acidity
  
  Overall thoughts: This is nicely balanced and integrated and has a nice, interesting flavor profile, but it's really lacking of some umph, especially when considering the pretty short finish. Good wine, but not great for me. Perhaps this particular bottle was a bit past its prime.

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• bensony Likes this wine: 95 points

  June 27, 2020 - The 1989 Mayacamas Cabernet Sauvignon is very youthful opaque deep garnet in color with plenty of ruby left. After 3 hours in the decanter, this beauty blossomed with a nose of blackcurrant, blackberry, cherry, redcurrant, pencil shavings, cigar box, tobacco, forest floor, truffle, gravel, and thyme. On the palate, the wine displays notes of blackberry, crème de cassis, black plum, redcurrant, violet, graphite, tobacco, sous bois, green herbs, cracked black pepper, and cedar. This is medium-bodied with medium (+) acidity, medium dusty tannins, and a long finish. If tasted blind 100 times, I’d call this 1st or 2nd Growth Left Bank Bordeaux every time.
  
  100% Cabernet Sauvignon; 12.5% ABV

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• oldwines Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 22, 2020 - Decanted at 4pm and tasted over the next 5 hours. Very elegant and refined yet full of flavor and nuance. Medium to dark garnet color with no perceptible bricking. So young looking. Nearly opaque. Effusive nose of oak related elements like vanilla, cedar and tobacco along with tons of blackberry and cassis as well as a hint of graphite. Big fruit but not over the top on the palate along with complex layers of earthy elements...cedar, leather, sweet pipe tobacco along with the dark fruit...blackberry, cassis, black plum. Then some chocolate on the finish. Really delicious and especially good with rack of lamb. This was way better than the pro scores would indicate, especially with the long aeration. Very elegant and rich and perfectly balanced. A pleasure to drink!

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• oldwines Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 26, 2018 - Purchased 5 years ago at retail post a "library release" from the winery. Decanted at 2pm and tasted through about 10pm. This wine kept evolving throughout the evening. It definitely needs the air and was still showing a lot of tight acidity through about 5pm but opened up nicely from 7pm onward. It was a young looking medium to dark garnet. The nose was varied and interesting throughout with raw game meat, herbal and floral elements, minerals and dark red fruit. While still showing a good bit of structure, the tannins were mostly integrated but still quite noticeable and while quite tart early on it got richer as the evening wore on. Palate had dark cherry, some green bell pepper, stony minerality, lavender and a very long finish with just a hint of vanilla and chocolate. Still plenty of life left if this bottle is representative.

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• M.Batard wrote: 90 points

  April 18, 2014 - Gorgeous black fruit and pencil lead nose. Good black fruit (still!) and fine structure on the palate. Medium finish. Delicious.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1989
• Type Red
• Producer Mayacamas Vineyards
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Code 822037220127

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