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2017 Dalla Valle, Maya, Napa Valley
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Why We're Buying
Dalle Valle Maya upholds Oakville’s tradition of world-class wine. Accompanied by estates like Opus One, Screaming Eagle, and Promontory, this Bordeaux-style red blend has notched seven perfect scores since its debut. Even with a challenging vintage in 2017, this incarnation of 67 cabernet sauvignon and 33 cabernet franc demands a place in any wine cellar. The terroir takes centerstage with earth, gravel, tar, and violets swirling amid a full body of black and blue fruits. Sensational freshness lifts the red blend as it floats across the palate. With bold flavors and immaculate balance, the essence of Oakville is on full display. But what makes 2017 Dalla Valle Maya truly special? The quantity. Normally, the estate releases 3,000 cases per year. However, wildfires in October limited production to a mere 800 cases. The Final Sip: Even a challenging vintage couldn’t stop Dalle Valle Maya from producing an awe-inspiring red blend in 2017.
Critics Scores
James Suckling
The plum and chocolate, as well as hazelnut and dried-flower character is prevalent here. It’s full-bodied, yet very refined with lovely, polished tannins and a long, crisp finish. Balanced and focused. Drink or hold.
Vinous
The 2017 Maya is not only gorgeous, it also appears to have handled the rigors of the growing season more successfully than the others. Ripe red cherry and plum fruit, blood orange, pomegranate, mint and spice all build as this racy, sumptuous wine shows off its considerable allure. Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc are just magic here.
Jeb Dunnuck
The tiny production 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon Maya is another thrilling wine. The normal blend of 60 Cabernet Sauvignon and 40 Cabernet Franc that was brought up in two-thirds new French oak, it offers a full-bodied, concentrated, yet sensationally elegant style as well as fab notes of crème de cassis, chocolate, graphite, and scorched earth. It’s a primordial example of this cuvée that has ripe tannins, a stacked mid-palate, and a great, great finish. Do your best to give bottles 4-6 years of bottle age.
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2017 Maya is a blend of 67 Cabernet Sauvignon and 33 Cabernet Franc and was bottled one week before I tasted it. Very deep purple-black in color, it opens with profound earthy notions of truffles, damp soil, crushed rocks and tar over a core of Black Forest cake, black raspberries, blueberry compote and aged meat plus touches of wilted roses and unsmoked cigars. Medium to full-bodied, the palate is solidly structured with firm, fine-grained tannins and wonderful freshness lifting the multilayered blue and black fruits with a long, perfumed finish. Stunning.