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| Community Tasting Notes (average 95.2 pts. and median of 95 pts. in 16 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Battersea James on 9/21/2022 & rated 92 points: Beautiful purity of fruit. Excellent balance with a long finish. A little heat on the finish? Whilst I really enjoyed this wine - I’m a huge Diamond Creek fan - I felt this particular wine just lacked the complexity that I normally get? Perhaps age will help in this regard? I’m going to keep my remaining bottles for a good 5+ years. (1124 views) | | | Tasted by IvanLi on 1/6/2018 & rated 100 points: WSET note followed by a descriptive note.
Clear, deep-ruby. Abundant legs/tears.
Clean, pronounced, highly-complex nose with primary, secondary and tertiary notes.
Primary: black fruits - cassis, creme de cassis, black ripe cherries, plums, fresh figs, mulberry; licorice, graphite.
Secondary: chocolate, cocoa, baking spices, nutmeg, smoke
Tertiary: leather
On the palate: dry, high acidity, high tannin, high alcohol, full body. Tannins are fine-grained and super-ripe.
Pronounced primary flavors of creme de cassis, black cherry, black currants, mulberries, sage, graphite, wet slate
Pronounced Secondary flavors: smoke, nutmeg, baking spices, chocolate, mocha.
Tertiary: some leather
Finish is long. The texture is mouth coating.
Can drink now, will improve with aging. Good structure, high tannins and high acidity along with high intensity of flavors and their complex nature are conducive to long aging. This wine is outstanding for the aforementioned reasons and the high varietal definition.
Descriptive note.
For me personally, this is a benchmark Napa Cabernet Sauvignon. It can't get any better than this. The fruits are sweet, highly complex and cool in nature. There is a clear presence of minerality (graphite, lead pencil, wet slate) which IMO is always a sign of the highest class of Cabernet Sauvignon.
That's all I have to say! (3737 views) | | | Tasted by La Cave d'Argent on 10/20/2017 & rated 94 points: 2017 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/16/2017-10/25/2017 (New York City, NY): True to the Diamond Creek style, this version of Red Rock Terrace is built for the long haul. To be sure, there is no paucity of sexy black cherry, blackberry and blueberry fruit, but there is likewise no paucity of rugged tannins. The fruit aromas and flavors add notes of violets, graphite, lavender and tobacco that persevere on the mid-palate and lengthy finish. Fresh acidity, seamless alcohol (14.1%) and restrained oak, in combination with the fruit and tannins, make this a perfect candidate for long-term cellaring. Give it at least another decade if you can. Drink 2027-2050. (5531 views) | | | Tasted by Francois Le Mouel on 2/25/2017 & rated 96 points: Wow, what a beautiful wine this is. Everything you want in a wine in perfect proportions. This is a classic Napa Cabernet, rich, tasty, without being over the top or too oaky. Excellent length and savoury finish. The tannins are like velvet. A lot of class. This should age easily for 20 years+. (3430 views) | | | Tasted by bestdamncab on 10/10/2016 & rated 95 points: Wine & Spirits Top 100 Tasting, nose of oak, smoke, black cherry, and cassis, same on the palate, big body, very tight, needs 7 years to peak, lovely tasting, lots of promise, long finish. Typical Diamond Creek. (3248 views) | | | Tasted by rossi.wine on 11/8/2015 & rated 94 points: Cherry fruit, dank berries, earth, smoke on the nose. Fairly soft compared to the other two, spicy, round, ripe but not heavy. Wonderfully balanced and very long. Keep. 93-94+ (3515 views) | | | Tasted by Jeff Leve on 9/22/2015 & rated 95 points: Dark ruby in color, with an earthy, smoke filled cassis and licorice nose. Full bodied, concentrated, fresh and lively with a polished, mineral driven, cassis packed finish. The finish really lingers. The wine needs a decade in the cellar to become civilized. (2816 views) |
| By Antonio Galloni
Vinous, 2013 Napa Valley: Once Upon a Time in America… (Oct 2015) (10/1/2015)
(Diamond Creek Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Red Rock Terrace Napa Valley) Subscribe to see review text. | By Panel Tasting
Decanter, Californian Cabernet 2012
(Diamond Creek, Red Rock Terrace, Napa Valley, California, USA, Red) Subscribe to see review text. |
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Producer's Estate Visit - Tasting
Diamond Creek Open House and 2015 Release Tasting Cabernet SauvignonCabernet Sauvignon is probably the most famous red wine grape variety on Earth. It is rivaled in this regard only by its Bordeaux stablemate Merlot, and its opposite number in Burgundy, Pinot Noir. From its origins in Bordeaux, Cabernet has successfully spread to almost every winegrowing country in the world. It is now the key grape variety in many first-rate New World wine regions, most notably Napa Valley, Coonawarra and Maipo Valley. Wherever they come from, Cabernet Sauvignon wines always seem to demonstrate a handful of common character traits: deep color, good tannin structure, moderate acidity and aromas of blackcurrant, tomato leaf, dark spices and cedarwood.
Used as frequently in blends as in varietal wines, Cabernet Sauvignon has a large number of common blending partners. Apart from the obvious Merlot and Cabernet Franc, the most prevalent of these are Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenere (the ingredients of a classic Bordeaux Blend), Shiraz (in Australia's favorite blend) and in Spain and South America, a Cabernet – Tempranillo blend is now commonplace. Even the bold Tannat-based wines of Madiran are now generally softened with Cabernet SauvignonUSAAmerican wine has been produced since the 1500s, with the first widespread production beginning in New Mexico in 1628. Today, wine production is undertaken in all fifty states, with California producing 84% of all U.S. wine. The continent of North America is home to several native species of grape, including Vitis labrusca, Vitis riparia, Vitis rotundifolia, and Vitis vulpina, but the wine-making industry is based almost entirely on the cultivation of the European Vitis vinifera, which was introduced by European settlers. With more than 1,100,000 acres (4,500 km2) under vine, the United States is the fourth-largest wine producing country in the world, after Italy, Spain, and France.California2021 vintage: "Unlike almost all other areas of the state, the Russian River Valley had higher than normal crops in 2021, which has made for a wine of greater generosity and fruit forwardness than some of its stablemates." - Morgan Twain-Peterson Napa Valley Napa Valley Wineries and Wine (Napa Valley Vintners)Diamond MountainDiamond Mountain AVA: definition |
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