Dark fruit, a hint of chocolate in a true Bordeaux style. Full bodied with grippy tannins and a lingering finish. This was opened about 90 minutes before tasting and needed 90 minutes more to fully open. Nicely balanced but a bit muted compared top a 2010 Gravelly Meadow I drank about a month ago. Will give this another few years.
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Black dark fruit, mocha, lavender, and some shining toasted oak. Gorgeous elegant palate with dimension, light acidity and great texture.. Strong but effeminate; in a very fine drinking window but has many many great years ahead. Very classy.
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Only able to decant this for about 30 minutes. Deep black coloration with a very old school Napa (almost Bordeaux like) profile. Still a baby with the bulk of the fruit buried behind fine tannins and high acidity. Still there’s plenty to like with aged leather, dark chocolate, eucalyptus, graphite, cherry chapstick, and sandalwood. It gives the impression of being almost secondary but I think we are still a long way out from that.
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If you ever walk into a tavern or hotel lobby, and someone is screaming “I AM THE BEST GODDAM WINE MAKER IN AMERICA!!” Then: either they are crazy, a krankl, turley or harlan, OR THEY WORK AT DIAMOND CREEK.
Just starting to open.
CLASS IN A GLASS. 96-97
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Opened at Anvil. Black fruits with some plum, mocha and lavender notes. Tannins still nicely gripping, but not over the top. This has the stuffing to go the distance. 93+
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Exciting nose of clove, liqorice, honey, cassis, black olive, black pepper. Silkily coats the mouth into a long finish. It’s sweet, perhaps just a hair too sweet for my taste, but excellently balanced by fresh acidity and gorgeous soft tannins. Really quite unique. I can’t say I adore this but I could see myself reaching for one now and again and nothing else could replace it. Looking forward to expanding my opinion with the Volcanic Hill from same vintage and then into other vintages.
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2015 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/19/2015-10/27/2015 (New York City, NY): Diamond Creek is lengendary for producing long-lived wines which typically require lengthy cellar time to achieve drinkability. While this offering will certainly benefit from cellaring, its massive tannins are more fine-grained and supple. As such, it will be drinkable at an earlier age than many previous vintages. Opaque crimson and aromatically effusive of bramble fruits, earth-laced plum, Asian spices and dried herbs, it follows with similar flavors. With good acidity and seamless alcohol (14.1%), it gains traction in the middle and closes very long. This is a superb, strutured Cabernet. Drink 2020-2050.
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Diamond Creek Wine Tasting (Ponti Wine Cellars): Slow-oxed 5 hours in bottle before tasting. Appearance is clear, deep intensity, ruby colour with purplish tinge. Legs. Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with extremely fruity aromas of blackcurrant and blackberry. Some slight ferrous minerality. Youthful. On the palate, dry, high acidity, high alcohol (14.1%), grippy high tannins, full body. Pronounced flavour intensity, bursting forth with flavours of ripe blackcurrant and blackberries, and some iron minerality. Long finish. Very good quality. 2010 obviously a riper/warmer vintage than 2009. But I prefer the balance and smooth tannins of the 2009 vintage. 88% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Cabernet Franc, Merlot, and a bit of Petit Verdot.
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(From a 375ml bottle at the winery) Intriguing nose of cedar, sage, freshly turned earth, anise, tobacco, and spice box with underlying dark fruit. Again the bouquet kept changing with air and kept calling my nose back. The palate was just as interesting with lovely fruit that is kept intact by driving acidity and sweet tannins. Great cabernet.
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5/30/2022 - wconnolly Likes this wine: 92 Points
Dark fruit, a hint of chocolate in a true Bordeaux style. Full bodied with grippy tannins and a lingering finish. This was opened about 90 minutes before tasting and needed 90 minutes more to fully open. Nicely balanced but a bit muted compared top a 2010 Gravelly Meadow I drank about a month ago. Will give this another few years.
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10/13/2021 - mchern02 wrote: 94 Points
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Black dark fruit, mocha, lavender, and some shining toasted oak. Gorgeous elegant palate with dimension, light acidity and great texture.. Strong but effeminate; in a very fine drinking window but has many many great years ahead. Very classy.
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3/9/2021 - orwines wrote: 95 Points
Strong showing.
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2/7/2021 - DCHeel84 wrote: 97 Points
decanted for 3 hours. magical
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9/21/2018 - MAXIMUM SATISFACTION wrote: 93 Points
Only able to decant this for about 30 minutes. Deep black coloration with a very old school Napa (almost Bordeaux like) profile. Still a baby with the bulk of the fruit buried behind fine tannins and high acidity. Still there’s plenty to like with aged leather, dark chocolate, eucalyptus, graphite, cherry chapstick, and sandalwood. It gives the impression of being almost secondary but I think we are still a long way out from that.
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8/19/2018 - jdtonic Likes this wine: 96 Points
If you ever walk into a tavern or hotel lobby, and someone is screaming “I AM THE BEST GODDAM WINE MAKER IN AMERICA!!” Then: either they are crazy, a krankl, turley or harlan, OR THEY WORK AT DIAMOND CREEK.
Just starting to open.
CLASS IN A GLASS.
96-97
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3/21/2018 - thelostverse wrote: 93 Points
Opened at Anvil. Black fruits with some plum, mocha and lavender notes. Tannins still nicely gripping, but not over the top. This has the stuffing to go the distance. 93+
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3/3/2018 - OmiyaDrinker wrote: 93 Points
Exciting nose of clove, liqorice, honey, cassis, black olive, black pepper. Silkily coats the mouth into a long finish. It’s sweet, perhaps just a hair too sweet for my taste, but excellently balanced by fresh acidity and gorgeous soft tannins. Really quite unique. I can’t say I adore this but I could see myself reaching for one now and again and nothing else could replace it. Looking forward to expanding my opinion with the Volcanic Hill from same vintage and then into other vintages.
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1/23/2016 - Skinnypanda wrote:
Marcel's 2015 Christmas present
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10/23/2015 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 95 Points
2015 New York Wine Experience Trip; 10/19/2015-10/27/2015 (New York City, NY): Diamond Creek is lengendary for producing long-lived wines which typically require lengthy cellar time to achieve drinkability. While this offering will certainly benefit from cellaring, its massive tannins are more fine-grained and supple. As such, it will be drinkable at an earlier age than many previous vintages. Opaque crimson and aromatically effusive of bramble fruits, earth-laced plum, Asian spices and dried herbs, it follows with similar flavors. With good acidity and seamless alcohol (14.1%), it gains traction in the middle and closes very long. This is a superb, strutured Cabernet. Drink 2020-2050.
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3/4/2015 - Derek Darth Taster wrote:
Diamond Creek Wine Tasting (Ponti Wine Cellars): Slow-oxed 5 hours in bottle before tasting.
Appearance is clear, deep intensity, ruby colour with purplish tinge. Legs.
Nose is clean, medium+ intensity, with extremely fruity aromas of blackcurrant and blackberry. Some slight ferrous minerality. Youthful.
On the palate, dry, high acidity, high alcohol (14.1%), grippy high tannins, full body. Pronounced flavour intensity, bursting forth with flavours of ripe blackcurrant and blackberries, and some iron minerality. Long finish.
Very good quality. 2010 obviously a riper/warmer vintage than 2009. But I prefer the balance and smooth tannins of the 2009 vintage.
88% Cabernet Sauvignon, and the rest Cabernet Franc, Merlot, and a bit of Petit Verdot.
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10/29/2013 - jnewman77 Likes this wine:
(From a 375ml bottle at the winery) Intriguing nose of cedar, sage, freshly turned earth, anise, tobacco, and spice box with underlying dark fruit. Again the bouquet kept changing with air and kept calling my nose back. The palate was just as interesting with lovely fruit that is kept intact by driving acidity and sweet tannins. Great cabernet.
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