Mayacamas, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder, Cabernet Sauvignon 1983 (BN) Tuscany wide flavours of dark cherries

wide flavours of dark cherries and berries

Jacques Guinaudeau’s forebear

plush and deeply expressive

There’s a splash of lemon oil

All the elements are in perfect balance and symmetry

Mayacamas, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder, Cabernet Sauvignon 1983 (BN) Tuscany wide flavours of dark cherriesin Original Carton; Base neck 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 and intensely flavored