Mayacamas Vineyards - Mount Veeder Cabernet Sauvignon 2020 (750ml)
Price: $194.99
| Producer | Mayacamas Vineyards |
| Country | United States |
| Region | Napa Valley |
| Subregion | Mount Veeder |
| Varietal | Cabernet Sauvignon |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 7501 |
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The wine is richly perfumed, compact and complex. A balanced richness distributed between red, black and blue fruits: cherry, plum, and mulberry. The intensity of the fruit profile is counterbalanced by graphite, bay laurel and palo santo notes. A highly structured profile driven by focused fruit and unpinned by a savory saline finish.
Mayacamas Vineyards Description
Each year we strive to create wines that reflect site, vintage, and style. Our grapegrowing and winemaking processes seek to highlight the intensity, elegance and nuance of mountain grown Cabernet Sauvignon. Our 12 Cabernet Sauvignon blocks are spread across the 475-acre Estate at elevations ranging from 1,800 ft to 2,200 ft. There are numerous soil profiles across these blocks, including compressed volcanic ash, fractured volcanic cobbles, gravelly loam, and cobbled clay. The rugged topography and intense exposure result in multiple microclimates where Cabernet Sauvignon can develop a range of flavor profiles. Keeping with tradition, the plantings are dominated by California heritage clonal selection – including from Sees, Martha’s, Niebaum, Martini and our Mayacamas house clone. The vineyards have been farmed organically since 2013.
James Suckling: 95 Points
A creamy texture surrounds pretty floral and black fruit flavors in this elegant, poised wine. It escaped the vintage's smoke effects, and offers pure blackcurrant and black cherry flavors that expand on the palate and linger in the finish. Medium- to full-bodied. Made from 100% cabernet sauvignon. From organically grown grapes.
Vinous: 94 Points
The 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon is one of the wines of this very challenging harvest. Dark and imposing, the 2020 is packed with black fruit, cloves, leather, menthol, chocolate and dried herbs. This is an especially dense, potent Cabernet. There is some aggressiveness to the tannins, but that is the vintage. Overall, this is impeccably done, especially within the context of the year.
Wine Spectator: 92 Points
This is zesty and lively, with good energy (especially for a '20) to the mix of bramble, sweet bay and chaparral notes liberally infusing its core of black currant and bitter plum fruit. Taut and structured, with a cast iron note bolting through the finish. Needs some time to settle in but is loaded with character and nicely done for the vintage.
Wine Advocate: 92 Points
The grapes for Mayacamas's 2020 Cabernet Sauvignon were harvested between September 5th and 16th, well before the Glass Fire. To mitigate any possible smoke exposure from the LNU Complex Fires, the fruit was rinsed, maceration times were shortened, and the press wine was kept separate (and ultimately mostly bulked out). The results speak for themselves, as the wine offers up clean cassis, cherries and blueberries, plus hints of sage and cracked pepper. It's medium to full-bodied and firmly built, with dusty tannins on the finish.
