1986 Mayacamas Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 92 points

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  10/17/2023 - KTelaak_Buffalo Likes this wine: 95 Points

  For a 37 year old wine, this provides an amazing overall experience. Tertiary flavors with fruits that are still bright and a wine that is fully alive. It was everything I had hoped for from this bottle. Minimal sediment. Cork in good shape for its age. If tasted blind I'd have called it a first growth Bordeaux.

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  9/14/2022 - Professor_Budge Likes this wine:

  Still fresh with lots of life left. Cassis, dark red fruit, leather, pencil shavings, tobacco, slight eucalyptus. Integrated tannins and medium+ acid. Lovely and drinking at peak.

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  8/10/2021 - napasoutherner Likes this wine: 92 Points

  I really liked this wine as I wasn't expecting a beautiful old Napa wine; however, it really stunned. Some pine forest floor notes, red fruit, cigar box and a nice rounded finish.

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  4/17/2013 - TexasBob Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Beautiful color that shows no sign of fading. The bouquet is full of flowers - roses, violets, and an almost cloying flowery sweetness. Some red fruit undertones on the nose as well, but the flowers are simply amazing. A very brief smoky note on the front palate. Red fruits(notably raspberry), rose petals, black pepper. The finish is a little acrid, but everything else is excellent. 92 - and if I could grade the nose only I would give it a 98. I brought this to drink with Yann Nury at his place in NYC.

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  12/10/2001 - buckeye76 wrote: 83 Points

  BLACK CHERRIES IN THE NOSE AND FLAVOR. NOT UP TO PREVIOUS MAYACAMAS VINTAGES AND VERY INCONSISTENT. SECOND TASTING HAD LIGHT FRUIT & ACID. GREAT VARIABILITY BETWEEN BOTTLES (78-92).

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