97 points Vinous Media
Drinking window: 2029 - 2051
The 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon is fabulous. It's vivid and super-classic to the core, offering up an exotic mélange of dark fruit, espresso, dried herbs, iron, forest floor and incense. The 2021 is a quintessential mountain wine from Mt. Veeder, but there's just enough polish to wrap it all together while avoiding any sense of rusticity.

Readers will find much to admire in these current and upcoming releases from Mayacamas and winemaker Braiden Albrecht, including several of the small-lot bottlings the estate has begun to offer in recent years. The flagship Cabernets offer plenty of mountain structure, but they show a bit more polish than the wines of the past. As always, Mayacamas bolsters their range with a handful of library releases from the Bob Travers era, arguably the most historically significant period for Mayacamas, for the time being. As gorgeous as those wines are, Travers bottled his wines cask by cask, introducing an element of variation that was common at the time but harder for consumers to accept today.