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Dalla Valle Maya 1998

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Winery:
Dalla Valle Vineyards
Varietal:
Bordeaux Blend
Region:
USA > California > Napa
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2013
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User Tags:  balance, rich, floral, plum, berry, spicy, licorice, resinous, stone fruits, color descriptors 


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The classic Bordeaux blends rely on either Merlot or Cabernet Sauvignon for the bulk of the wine with additions of Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, and Malbec helping to add complexity, color, body and structure to the finished wine.

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Rating: 93(+?) - As reviewed by International Wine Cellar in Issue 96, May/June 2001 Deep ruby-red. High-pitched aromas of black cherry, blueberry, licorice, shoe polish and violet. Extremely primary and dense, with lively flavors of cassis, licorice, violet and shoe polish. Finishes with very fine tannins, and persistent, slow-building flavors. Not yet open in the middle palate, but there nothing about this wine to suggest that it's from a mediocre year. Indeed, notes winemaker Mia Klein, the cabernet franc, which comprises 45% of the blend, was strong in 1998.


 

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Rating: 95/100 - As reviewed by The Wine Messenger 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. As I indicated in my December, 2000 report, Dalla Valle's 1998s are candidates for wines of the vintage.


 

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Rating: 90/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator


 

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Rating: 93/100 - As reviewed by Wine Spectator on 10/31/01


 

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