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2021 Dalla Valle MayaBlend from United States

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The 2021 Maya Proprietary Red Wine is a classic 60/40 split of Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc that spent 24 months in 80% new French oak. Ripe red, blue, and black fruit, graphite, liquid flowers, and a liquid rock-like minerality all shine in this quintessential, layered, regal, majestic 2021. It has awesome purity, full-bodied richness, flawlessly polished tannins, and a great finish. This is a legend in the making, and Napa Valley simply doesn’t get any better. It will take a solid decade for this to hit maturity, and it should have 30+ years of prime drinking thereafter.

100 Joe Czerwinski - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate

Simply a wonderful wine, the 2021 Maya oozes class, with deep, complex aromas of violets and cassis, earthy loam and hints of tobacco and mint. It's just medium to full-bodied, cool, silky and finessed. Supremely elegant but concentrated, just reined in, restrained. She's the "perfect" girl, the one so special a younger me would be afraid to ask out. The current me is married, so... I'll just sit here and drink it in. Readers should drink it in too. All of it, from the upfront fruit to the lingering, savory finish. While approachable now, this wine should continue to drink well for two decades or more.

99 Jonathan Cristaldi - Decanter Magazine

It comes from the Maya blocks on the house's southern side combined with Cabernet Franc that abuts the Peter Michael Au Paradis vineyard. A wonderfully dark, opaque ruby colour in the glass leads to fragrant boysenberry and kirsch notes, cedarwood, and rose petals. Full-bodied with super firm and structured tannins that have a pixelated density that would make the latest iPhone jealous. The finish is very long, and even for all the wine's compactness and weight on the palate, there is a lightness to this wine that is striking. Maya Dalla Valle, the daughter of founder Naoko Dalla Valle, is the winemaker with Andy Erickson and Michel Rolland consulting, while Edgar Alfaro manages the vineyards.

99 Lisa Perrotti-Brown - The Wine Independent

The 2021 Maya, 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Cabernet Franc, is deep garnet-purple in color. It sails out with graceful notes of violets, fresh blackberries, and blackcurrant pastilles giving way to wafts of pencil shavings and underbrush. The full-bodied palate is an exercise in elegance, with fine-grained tannins and a lively backbone, finishing long and fragrant.

99 Markus Del Monego MW - Tasting Book

Volcanic soil, a lot of sun due to the western exposure of the vineyard and the cooling breezes from the San Pablo Bay create a unique terroir for Maya. This results in a gorgeous wine with dark purple colour, violet hue and black core. The nose is complex, rich and elegant with an aroma reminiscent of juicy plums, blackberries and hints of Crème de Cassis, complemented by fine floral tones, violets and wisteria, hints of aromatic herbs, mint and a whiff of blackcurrant leaf. In the background refined toasting, dark chocolate and a hint of graphite. On the palate well balanced and structured with silky tannins and a complex approach, the structure of Cabernet Sauvignon an the freshness of Cabernet Franc blend in a perfect way. A stunning wine with great aromatic depth and length

98+ Antonio Galloni - Vinous

The 2021 Maya is young, but so promising. A wine of density and stature, the 2021 offers striking vertical depth, with bright acids and plenty of tannin. All the elements are so well balanced. Intense red fruit, blood orange, cinnamon, new leather and cedar all meld together, but it is the whole rather than the sum of parts that is most impressive here. A blast of vibrant fruit explodes through to the finish. Unforgettable.

Item # 143267
Vintage 2021
Country United States
Region California
Sub-Region Napa
Color Red
ABV 14.8%
Size 750mL
Closure Cork
Varietal(s) Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon
Taste tobacco, raspberry, cassis, violet, pepper, green bean, currant, blackberry, cherry, bell pepper, olive, asparagus, spice, ginger, oak and vanilla
Nose tobacco, broccoli, berry, flower, currant, blackberry, cherry, cedar and cigar box

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