2019 Dalla Valle Maya
Type of Wine | Red |
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Country | USA |
Region | Californie |
Appellation | Napa Valley |
Winery | Dalla Valle |
Vintage | 2019 |
Grape | Cabernet Sauvignon Malbec Merlot Petit Verdot |
Content (Alc) | 0.75 ltr (14%) |
Drink window | 2024 - 2054 |
Founded in 1982 by Naoko and Gustav Dalla Valle, the winery is located about 240 meters above the Silverado Trail and offers excellent views of the landscape. In the early 1980s, people in Napa Valley were amazed at Naoko's visionary idea of planting the vines against the hills. Today some of California's finest wines are produced here. As early as 1992, Dalla Valle's cabernet sauvignon received 100 Parker points. It was the second California wine to receive this perfect score.
The Dalla Valle 'Maya' Napa Valley comes from the eponymous block of the vineyard and has a high proportion of cabernet franc: 40%. The remaining 60% is Cabernet Sauvignon. The harvest took place between the end of September and the beginning of October and was done by hand. The grapes were carefully sorted, destemmed and slowly fermented until they matured for over two years in the best French wooden barrels.
The Maya is surrounded by an aura of perfection, although he is still very young. The Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc cuvée shows fantastic complexity and an almost magical harmony of power and finesse. On the nose, the wine offers a very dense dark fruit of cassis and red cherries, blueberries, pomegranates and blood orange, milk chocolate, tobacco, menthol and mocha, as well as a spicy fragrance cloud. All this is accompanied by a slightly reductive note of flint and the best wood.
In the mouth, fine, silky and polished tannins appear. In addition, a perfectly integrated, lively and mineral tartaric acid and a ripe and elegant fruit bouquet. These different aspects merge seamlessly and pile up towards the endless finale. The wine continues to grow, only getting stronger and more subtle. What a balance and what a great experience, already! How big will this wine be after decades of aging?
This Maya 2019 has been awarded the iconic score of 100/100 points and the review ends with: " .....the palate is stunningly graceful and refined, featuring exhilarating mineral sparks among the red and black fruits, finishing with so much brightness and energy. Breathtaking!"
Founded in 1982 by Naoko and Gustav Dalla Valle, the winery sits about 800 feet above the Silverado Trail and offers excellent views of the landscape. In the early 1980s, people in the Napa Valley were amazed by Naoko's visionary idea of placing the vines against the hills. Today, some of California's finest wines are produced here. Already in 1992, Dalla Valle's cabernet sauvignon received 100 Parker points. It was the second California wine to receive this perfect score.
Naoko Dalla Valle comes from a Japanese dynasty of sake producers, but became more interested in the local wines in California. Since her husband's untimely death in 1995, she has led Dalla Valle alone. She has since taken it to the top of the Napa Valley. She is supported by winemaker Andy Erickson, consulting oenologist Michel Rolland and also her daughter Maya, who for a long time wanted nothing to do with the winery. After Maya had studied in Washington, she decided to pay a visit to Michel Rolland in Bordeaux. Ornellaia, Pétrus and Château Latour followed. "Now she's overqualified," her mother says with a wink. Maya is interested in the biodynamics she learned during her travels. In Dalla Valle, biodynamic work has been going on for a long time. In addition to barrels from the best cooperages, the cellar also contains clay amphorae, such as those at Pontet-Canet in Bordeaux, where biodynamic work has also been carried out for a long time.
Type of Wine | Red |
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Country | USA |
Region | Californie |
Appellation | Napa Valley |
Icons | Icon USA |
Winery | Dalla Valle |
Grape | Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot |
Biological certified | No |
Natural wine | No |
Vegan | No |
Vintage | 2019 |
Drinking as of | 2024 |
Drinking till | 2054 |
Alcohol % | 14 |
Alcohol free/low | No |
Content | 0.75 ltr |
Oak aging | Yes |
Sparkling | No |
Dessert wine | No |
Closure | Cork |
Parker rating | 100 |
James Suckling rating | 98 |
Tasting Profiles | Complex, Dark fruit, Dry, Aged on wood, Powerful, Tannines, Full |
Drink moments | Indruk maken, Lekker luxe |