Praise for the winemaker from Robert Parker: "The brilliant winemaking guru Thomas Brown provides his expertise at Maybach Family Vineyards. Brown has hit the bull’s eye with every one of these releases." (10/2014) From the winery: "ELEVENTH RELEASE of Maybach Amoenus, from a hillside vineyard on western side of Calistoga, where the moderating temperatures of the Black Mountain Gap are 10-15 degrees cooler than on the eastern side, allowing gradual ripening and good maturation."