Enjoying wine is part taste, part emotion, and with Caymus the latter plays a role for me.

FORBES: Caymus, A Wine Lover's All-Time Favorite Wine

They have several other facilities and opened the Caymus winery in 1972.

FORBES: Caymus, A Wine Lover's All-Time Favorite Wine

It is harder for something to be excellent when you have high expectations that it will be excellent, and I have this expectation every time I taste Caymus, yet it holds up, year after year.

FORBES: Caymus, A Wine Lover's All-Time Favorite Wine

Learn more in my previous Caymus piece.

FORBES: 2012 Year In Wine: Big California Reds (And Whites) Prevail

To me it captures the spirit of the California cabernet style that put Napa on the map: it is big, dark, rich and fruity, the kind of wine that goes great with red meat, but in the case of Caymus, it is so delicious and so well structured it is equally good on its own.

FORBES: Caymus, A Wine Lover's All-Time Favorite Wine