2000 Mayacamas Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  8/18/2023 - beatles wrote: 92 Points

  From half bottle. We were all guessing Bordeaux with some cab franc involved. How wrong we were. The cool, irony feel lead os astray, the mountain fruit is speaking here, this is vertical, intense, manly - and still young. Amazingly ...
  #Møntergade#Jelert&Co.

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  10/20/2020 - beatles wrote: 92 Points

  From half bottle. Very dry, cool, vertical; serious wine. From this format, the stage is early maturtiy; a classic treat.
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  10/2/2020 - acidqueen wrote: 94 Points

  Deep red color. No sign of age. Decanted one hour. Classic menthol and black cherry fruit. No obvious tertiary flavors yet. Tannins were still evident, but not overwhelming. This has fine structure, and clearly has development ahead, but drinks well now. It will be even better with more time in cellar.
  This bottle came direct from the winery 10 years after release, then in my cellar, so it has been well kept.

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  5/3/2018 - wicozani Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Pulled in accordance with the urging of this recipe >> http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Dining-Tip-Vegetable-Curry-Aged-Red-Wine?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=most_popular
  
  which suggests that an aged red is a good accompaniment with this curry. Good cork, and excellent color! Deep ruby in the glass with slightly thinning edges but no bricking. The nose initially featured some tomato leaf and iron, but with 15 minutes of air came around nicely. Dark cherry, plum, leather, oak spices on the palate, medium+ bodied with a decent finish. This was indeed an excellent pairing for this dish. Neither the food nor wine overshadowed the other.
  
  In sum, this bottle was MUCH better than our last one amazingly six+ years ago, demonstrating that at 18 years of age in California cabernet there are mostly good bottles rather than vintages. I hope we all continue to open up 'good bottles'!

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  2/16/2017 - whybuyone Does not like this wine:

  I had this from a half bottle which may have played a role in aging it faster but it was soured and undrinkable. Not a bad bottle and not corked. Just gone.

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