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The December 2023 Auction: Part 1
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Estimate: $600
1 top shoulder, 3 very top shoulder.
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94+ RP ". . . While no Maya was made in 2004, there are 400 cases of the 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of 97% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Cabernet Franc. It exhibits superb intensity, suggesting this estate, which was largely replanted over the last few years, is on the rebound. The 2004 offers beautiful notes of creme de cassis, minerals, spice box, and cedar, a structured style, and plenty of sweet tannin. Give it 3-4 years of bottle age, and drink it over the following 25 years. As a postscript, I recently had some of Dalla Valle’s Cabernet Sauvignons and Mayas from the early to mid-nineties, and I’m thrilled to report they are aging slowly, but spectacularly well. They provide further proof that the top Napa Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines can age for 25-30 or more years." 94+ WA "Michel Rolland has been brought in as a consulting winemaker by proprietor Naoko Dalla Valle, and while no Maya was made in 2004, there are 400 cases of the 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of 97% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Cabernet Franc. It exhibits superb intensity, suggesting this estate, which was largely replanted over the last few years, is on the rebound. The 2004 offers beautiful notes of creme de cassis, minerals, spice box, and cedar, a structured style, and plenty of sweet tannin. Give it 3-4 years of bottle age, and drink it over the following 25 years. As a postscript, I recently had some of Dalla Valle’s Cabernet Sauvignons and Mayas from the early to mid-nineties, and I’m thrilled to report they are aging slowly, but spectacularly well. They provide further proof that the top Napa Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines can age for 25-30 or more years."
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94+ RP ". . . While no Maya was made in 2004, there are 400 cases of the 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of 97% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Cabernet Franc. It exhibits superb intensity, suggesting this estate, which was largely replanted over the last few years, is on the rebound. The 2004 offers beautiful notes of creme de cassis, minerals, spice box, and cedar, a structured style, and plenty of sweet tannin. Give it 3-4 years of bottle age, and drink it over the following 25 years. As a postscript, I recently had some of Dalla Valle’s Cabernet Sauvignons and Mayas from the early to mid-nineties, and I’m thrilled to report they are aging slowly, but spectacularly well. They provide further proof that the top Napa Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines can age for 25-30 or more years." 94+ WA "Michel Rolland has been brought in as a consulting winemaker by proprietor Naoko Dalla Valle, and while no Maya was made in 2004, there are 400 cases of the 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon, a blend of 97% Cabernet Sauvignon and 3% Cabernet Franc. It exhibits superb intensity, suggesting this estate, which was largely replanted over the last few years, is on the rebound. The 2004 offers beautiful notes of creme de cassis, minerals, spice box, and cedar, a structured style, and plenty of sweet tannin. Give it 3-4 years of bottle age, and drink it over the following 25 years. As a postscript, I recently had some of Dalla Valle’s Cabernet Sauvignons and Mayas from the early to mid-nineties, and I’m thrilled to report they are aging slowly, but spectacularly well. They provide further proof that the top Napa Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines can age for 25-30 or more years."
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The fourth-largest wine producer in the world, led by California. American fine wine is defined by ripe, expressive fruit and a spirit of innovation, with Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon among the most sought-after wines globally.
California's most prestigious wine region, celebrated worldwide for opulent, structured Cabernet Sauvignon. Diverse soils and mountain-to-valley-floor sites yield wines of remarkable ripeness, power and longevity.
A prestigious Napa sub-AVA on the valley floor, home to iconic estates and celebrated for richly textured, powerful Cabernet Sauvignon.
The world's most planted premium red grape, yielding deeply colored, tannic and structured wines with cassis, cedar and graphite notes. Firm tannins and acidity make it exceptionally age-worthy, whether as a varietal or the backbone of a Bordeaux blend.