2021 Maya

Deep, dark-fruited character with plums, blackberries, chocolate and walnuts. Full-bodied, textural and velvety, with succulence and depth to its fruit. Structured, wide and super refined with a long, encompassing finish. It’s well integrated and balanced with a lively freshness, yet it needs some time. Better after 2027. (03/2024)

The 2021 Maya Proprietary Red Wine is the usual blend of 60% Cabernet Franc and 40% Cabernet Sauvignon from a single parcel of Cabernet Sauvignon and a selection of Cabernet Franc that will spend 24 months in 80% new French oak. It has a more floral, exotic style in its blue fruits, spring flowers, incense, and peppery herbal nose as well as a stunningly pure, elegant, polished, seamless style on the palate. It's another magical wine in the making from this terroir. (12/2023)

Very deep purple-black colored, the 2021 MDV Cabernet Sauvignon is shut down to start, needing a lot of swirling to unlock a profound nose of blackcurrant jelly, licorice, sandalwood, and crushed rocks, eventually opening out to fragrant nuances of cinnamon stick and lavender with a touch of clove oil. The full-bodied palate is so, so tightly wound, delivering tightly packed layers of black fruits, exotic spices, minerals, and floral notes with a rock-solid, grainy-textured frame, finishing with epic length and depth. Stunning! Give it six years or more until broaching, and then enjoy it over the next 40 years+. MDV is a bottling of pure Cabernet Sauvignon from the Maya block. It is only made in outstanding vintages and when a portion of the Cabernet Sauvignon can be isolated and bottled separately without taking away from the Maya label. The last vintage this was made was 2018. (12/2023)