Description
Red Wine: 1998 | Dalla Valle Vineyards | Maya
A 55% Cabernet Sauvignon to 45% Cabernet Franc blend, the 1998 is a kaleidoscopic wine with never-ending layers of delicious fruit, ripe tannins and seamless texture.
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Producer: Dalla Valle Vineyards
Ratings: WA | 95 WS | 93
Vintage: 1998
Size: 750ml
ABV: 14.6%
Varietal: Bordeaux Blend Red
Country/Region: United States, California
A 55% Cabernet Sauvignon to 45% Cabernet Franc blend, the 1998 is a kaleidoscopic wine with never-ending layers of delicious fruit, ripe tannins and seamless texture.
Reviews:
- Wine Advocate: The 1998 Maya (500 cases from a blend of 45% Cabernet Franc and 55% Cabernet Sauvignon) is an amazing effort, possessing multiple layers of fruit, sweet tannin, and no herbaceousness, astringency, or thinness. This is an amazing tour de force in winemaking for the vintage. It is loaded, with impeccable balance.
- Wine Spectator: Dark, ripe, rich and intense, with a complex and persistent beam of black cherry, blackberry, currant, anise and sage, turning floral, picking up hints of plum and chocolate.
Producer Information
Dalla Valle Vineyards is a Napa Valley producer located on a sunny hillside terrace of fractured volcanic rock in Oakville, 400ft(120m) above the Silverado Trail. It is particularly known for its flagship Maya cuve, which is one of the most prestigious of all Californian wines. The 1992, 2002, 2013 and 2016 wines have all received 100-point scores from The Wine Advocate publication.The estate was founded in 1986 (although it was purchased in 1982) by former scuba diver and diving equipment entrepreneur Gustav Dalla Valle and his wife Naoko. After Gustav’s death in 1995, just as the winery was gaining cult status, Naoko, whose family background includes Sake production, took control of the estate.Naoko is widely credited with having maintained, if not augmented, the winery’s reputation into the 21st Century.
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