1996 Diamond Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Red Rock Terrace

Community Tasting Notes (25) Median Score: 92 points

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  6/18/2023 - wabi47 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  spectacular to start, with bright mixed red fruit, great 'iron' sensation, some tobacco...all potent, but light on its feet. The fruit faded a bit over several hours but still tasty. I had not tasted this before, and would not have been able to guess a napa cab--a revelation.

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  3/12/2022 - vinopunk Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Bottle had been well-stored in a wine fridge but compressor had died at some point, and I'm unclear if it was not climate controlled for a matter of days, weeks, months or years. Regardless it survived beautifully. Excellent fill level, soft cork but extracted cleanly, and very little sediment. Great dark red color. Was tasted back-to-back with the Volcanic Hill from the same vintage and this one was more earthy, and that one was more about the fruit. I preferred this one, but both were excellent. And I'm happy to say I have one more bottle of each.

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  1/12/2022 - dkentaustin Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Wet earth, tobacco leaves, floral notes and pretty black fruit. You can tell it’s of age but there’s a brightness to it’s fruit with some chalkiness and minerality.
  
  p.s. lamb with mint jelly paired with roasted cauliflower and salad.

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  7/15/2020 - chatters wrote:

  Napa Tasting (Bistro Cocotte, Haberfield): Slightly dusty and closed, a little musty in fact, almost a touch of cellar stink over black currant and sweet spice. Plum as well. That cellar stink note translates to the palate as well though it's not so dominant, savoury plums, quite bitter and hard tannins, blackcurrant with time. Hmm. It's drinkable so I'm not marking it as flaw.

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  5/10/2020 - rjmp96 Likes this wine: 94 Points

  The color on this is very youthful. It feels that way on the palate as well, with big, leathery tannin and really fresh acidity. Expansive midpalate, with a great finish and a nice low abv of 12.5%. Everything is in step here, with a lot of tertiary flavors and great complexity. Aromas and flavors of black olive, mushroom, dried blackberry, graphite, red plum, mint, damp earth and decaying flowers. Polished and powerful, yet graceful. Surprising at how young this feels, as Red Rock Terrace is generally the most forward of Diamond Creek’s wines. At peak but should keep for awhile.

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