Mayacamas, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder, Cabernet Sauvignon 1983 (HS) Cabernet Sauvignon and opulent

and opulent

orange peel

as only the most famous vineyards—the premier crus—were ever bottled individually

liquid rock-like minerality

Mayacamas, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder, Cabernet Sauvignon 1983 (HS) Cabernet Sauvignon and opulentremoved 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