The 1990 Cabernet Sauvignon-Special Selection appears to be the best Caymus has produced since 1986 and 1985. Two thousand six-bottle cases will be released in February 1994. The wine offers a saturated dark purple color and a rich spicy oaky nose backed up by generous quantities of jammy blackcurrants. Ripe highly extracted and full-bodied with copious amounts of sweet tannin and layers of fruit this is a knock-out flamboyantly-styled Cabernet for drinking over the next 15 or more years.

Aging extremely well this is rich sleek and elegant with a wide range of black cherry anise currant plum and earth notes that offer depthand complexity finishing in a long aftertaste. Tannins are softening.--California Cabernet retrospective. Drink now through 2007. 1000 cases made. (JL)