Community Tasting Notes 14

• Cablover1982 Likes this wine: 97 points

  December 15, 2023 - Brilliant wine from ‘12 Diamond Mountain fruit. Expressive and intense stony minerals on the nose with fleshy dark cherry, gobs of dark cocoa, plums, crushed stones, earth, some tree bark and charcoal. This has just right amount of plushy fruit at this stage and showing sumptuous secondary notes as well. Held by nice acidity and fine tannins. This can go much longer.

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• MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 points

  September 22, 2023 - Filtered for sediment into splash decanter and consumed over a few hours.
  
  I believe this bottle is at the tail end for some and a new chapter for others. Just enough energy to present the silky dark fruit which should continue to gain tertiary flavors over the next 10. With two bottles left in the cellar I'll revisit this again in about 5 years.
  
  If you're looking for freshness you might consider opening soon. If you like tobacco, mushrooms, earth etc... give it some time.
  
  93/94 Drink or Hold

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• CrocodileCab Likes this wine: 94 points

  October 7, 2022 - Five years since last bottle. Decanted for three - four hours. Better now. Velvety smooth, powerful. Big dark cherry fruit. Very enjoyable for sure. Vanilla from the oak has blown off with the years. The alcohol works with it, but is maybe just a bit overpowering for me (15.1 abv). Beautiful wine, QPR not ideal, but it is what it is. High quality, minimal production (at least back then, haven’t followed past 2013 vintage).

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• MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 points

  August 2, 2022 - PNP- beautiful dark fruit with is a signature of Diamond Mountain. My only complaint would be this wine lacks some energy. Also there is a good bit of sediment that need mitigated.
  
  Current release are even more expensive than the $225 paid DTC back when we visited.
  
  94

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• MJP Hou TX Likes this wine: 94 points

  April 11, 2021 - Decided to pull another Diamond Mountain wine after taking down a Rhadamanthus 17. Some similarities with regards to dark fruit but with 5 years of age on the vineyardist, this was very different at PNP. As noted by fellow CT’ers, a lot of sediment in the dark coloring. A little flabby and clouded in coloring on day two. Still really good but at the price paid one should expect more.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2012
• Type Red
• Producer The Vineyardist
• Varietal Cabernet Sauvignon
• Designation n/a
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Diamond Mountain

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• In Cellars 490 (60%)
• Consumed 316 (39%)

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