Mayacamas, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder, Cabernet Sauvignon 1983 (HS) Red This is not a big

This is not a big Bonnes Mares but there is muscle present all the same and it will require a few years in the cellar first to really display its full potential

but most readers will probably prefer to give it a few years of bottle age and consume it over the following 30+ years

98 points Wine Advocate

There is wet stone and minerality going into a medium plus finish

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Mayacamas, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder, Cabernet Sauvignon 1983 (HS) Red This is not a bigremoved from Original Carton; High Shoulder or better 92 points John Gilman . . . . the Mayacamas 83 is excellent. At age twenty four the bouquet is quite Pichon Lalande like, as it offers up notes of sweet cassis, tobacco, coffee, bell pepper, earth and cigar smoke. On the palate the wine is medium full, poised and complex, with lovely focus and purity and a long, tangy and highly polished finish . . . . it lacks for nothing in its more understated