1999 Diamond Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Gravelly Meadow

Community Tasting Notes (16) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  3/4/2020 - brasstab wrote: 94 Points

  Delivered on so many levels. Purchased at a dinner with Al Brounstein many, many years ago, I saved it for my daughter’s 21st BD. We celebrated with the pork chop at Perry’s Steakhouse in Coral Gables. A fabulous pairing. It had all the elegance and power you’d expect, with an explosion of character, tannin and, of course, fruit. Everything was in exquisite balance with 21 years on it, sort of like my daughter.

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  5/23/2019 - rmcnees Likes this wine: 91 Points

  At twenty years of age this wine is likely at the apex of its drinking window, certainly not to improve with further aging, but probably nearing the end of its prime drinkability.
  
  Dark garnet color with purple sprites, medium bodied, complex moderate blackberry, black currant and plum fruits turning to tobacco, notes of graphite and cedar wood, frontal bright acidity is pronounced and a bit obtuse turning to gripping tannins on the lingering finish.
  
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  3/17/2019 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  Another big birthday - the 5-0 (Rezza Trattoria e Pizza Romana): From a 6L. One of my favorites of the night. It was decanted and served over the course of a few hours. Just got better and better in the glass. Some of the fruit flabbiness went away and let the secondary notes shine more. It's still on the young side esp from that format, but you can get a bit of the namesake gravel coming through. Lots of darker black fruit. Overall well balanced and very tasty.

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  2/3/2019 - Burgundy Al wrote: 93 Points

  Good Wine with a Boring Super Bowl (Chez Kailin - Northbrook IL): Social walk-around tasting, brief note. Slowly maturing black currant with cassis, tobacco and espresso notes. Seems like a fine Left Bank Bordeaux with such refinement.

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  7/19/2018 - sung251 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  what a wine. Despite its age it still has formidable acidity and good amount of structure. Rather than super ripe high precision black fruits that is all too common in napa this wine is more restrained with notes of blue fruits and violets with only 12.5% alcohol. The wine is extremely bordeaux like and the flavors reminds me of a Margaux appellation wine with aromatics of a st Julian wine. Its open for business now but you can easily hold this for 10 more years. it probability won't improve much but still might improve, try 5 years later.

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