Mayacamas, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder, Cabernet Sauvignon 1983 (BN) Riesling well-drained soils

well-drained soils

There’s 700 cases of this terrific 2015 and it has awesome purity in its crème de cassis

As to his Chateauneufs

Great Bandol

all framed by very fine

Mayacamas, Napa Valley, Mt. Veeder, Cabernet Sauvignon 1983 (BN) Riesling well-drained soilsin 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