Close to impeccable condition on the bottle. Clean label with just a few nicks. High should fill. Cork level fine. Capsule still spins.
Cork tip broke on extraction but top piece was clean. No issues. While I normally would have done a pop and pour on an older bottle like this, the travel to our resort shook it a bit. We had it strained and decanted.
Gorgeous, transparent ruby red color. Nose initially had me worried with what seemed a little corkiness. Blew off shortly to an old Bordeaux perfume, musk, tobacco, dried fruits and a soft barnyard wood note. And yay, perfectly alive, like en elegant aging soul. Clearly well past apogee, but had such a lovely range of dried red and dark fruits, forrest floor, tobacco leaf and a distinct citrus note on the finish. Showed a touch of sherry over time but that only added some interesting complexity as this wine faded into the sunset. An excellent wine to share with my close friend on his 50th.
Ain’t nothing elegant about this yak. I’m all Neanderthal. And fighting age going down fighting. I show better than this Mayacamas: more pomp, ceremony, hubris and bombast. The only age I show is wisdom and an ever-so-slight thinning and greying of the mane…
Interesting you connected these. I forgot an exchange that I had with the young host at Ovid. He seemed to be pretty well-connected and ears to the ground, except that, he had not heard of Morgan/Bedrock. I was shocked. I gave the guy a bottle of the Bedrock Monticello Cab, which I just happened to have in the car. I asked him what Cabs he enjoyed, and he said Mayacamas and Ridge, not knowing that those are two faves of mine as well. Now that said, I have not had any recent vintages of Mayacamas. How is it doing these days?
