2016 Diamond Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Gravelly Meadow

Community Tasting Notes (6) Avg Score: 96.7 points

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  11/24/2020 - joshabr Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Big, inky purple, dense ripe fruit, but actually surprisingly elegant and balanced. I was expecting this might be a bit over the top after seeing the color, but there are quite fine tannins on the finish and the structure holds the wine together nicely. Very good.

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  10/1/2020 - OmiyaDrinker wrote: 95 Points

  Tar, burnt rubber, ash, black currant, dark plum, shaved pencil, vanilla turning into toffee, forest floor, moist bark. Delicious fruit on the palate, super intense busting blackberries but with a savoury umami component of animal fat. Very dense in the mid-palate. Components aren't integrated as yet but each of them is sensational. The finish almost rains on your palate. Wow.

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  10/1/2020 - Nipperu Likes this wine: 98 Points

  clear deep purple
  
  Sweet blackcurrants, dark plum, cola
  Graphite pencils/wood box,
  Tar/burnt rubber
  Coconut, toffee, spice
  Woody herb: rosemary? Bark?
  Saline?
  
  Dry - sweet fruit, vanilla, green character
  High fine tannins
  Full body but nimble
  Med+ acid
  Med+ alc - very well balanced. (Actually 14.5!)
  Med+ finish
  
  Excellent. Keeps evolving in glass, 3 hour decant.

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  12/6/2019 - Geaux Tigers wrote: 97 Points

  From a 375, PnP with a decant. Vanilla, crushed blueberries, blueberry cream pie, cigar box, bramble brush. No rough edges, long finish, inky, viscous, great tannin management here, hint of bubble gum on a long finish. Easy 100 WA in 5 years.

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  11/10/2019 - Philip67 Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Gorgeous. Far more integrated than the '17's. Big fruit but still elegant. Spicy vanilla oak.

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