Mayacamas Vineyards

The most age-demanding Napa Valley Cabernet — Mayacamas summit 2,400-foot estate Cab consistently earning 93–97 points for the volcanic rhyolite concentration that requires 15–20 years of cellar aging to approach its drinking peak, the most austere and patience-requiring mountain Cabernet estate program in all of California.

Mayacamas's most historically unusual and personally distinctive expression — Late Harvest Zinfandel from the 2,400-foot Mount Veeder summit estate, one of California's oldest and most unusual high-elevation sweet Zinfandel productions from the volcanic summit winery that has been producing wine of maximum altitude and minimum compromise since 1889.

Mayacamas's mountain white expression — 2,400-foot Mount Veeder summit Chardonnay from the volcanic rhyolite estate showing the most naturally structured and acid-intense California Chardonnay available, requiring years of bottle age like the flagship Cabernet but producing, in its best vintages, white wine of extraordinary mineral depth.

Mayacamas's most immediately accessible white — Mount Veeder summit Sauvignon Blanc from volcanic rhyolite terrain showing the crisp, mineral, food-first character that 2,400-foot altitude farming consistently produces in this Loire variety as the most immediately approachable white wine from the Napa Valley's most austere and philosophically uncompromising mountain estate.