1978 Diamond Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Red Rock Terrace

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 94.3 points

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  3/5/2022 - racerchris Likes this wine: 93 Points

  High fill. Perfect cork. Decanted. Full color. Medium plus acidity. Substantial but well evolved tannins. Complex flavor with a slightly bitter finish.
  Excellent to outstanding mature Cabernet, that for my taste was already past peak.
  93-94

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  10/21/2021 - dream Likes this wine: 93 Points

  This was just a bit behind both the Gravelly Meadow and Volcanic Hill, at least on this occasion. Very sleek and refined with a silky, aged texture but a bit more muted with less fruit than the others. Still a very fine aged Cabernet and it came on in the glass but never reached the heights of the other two. I gave a 97 to the bottle I drank 3 years ago.

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  10/21/2021 - adnorthup wrote:

  1978 Diamond Creek and Monte Bello (MP Taverna, Irvington, NY): takes awhile to open up, but then shows beautiful fruit and more of the classic cab tertiary flavors. Loads of cassis, leather, brilliant long lingering finish. Does have a small iodine note, but it plays very well. Pales compared to VH and GM, but a fine wine.

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  7/24/2019 - esh44 wrote:

  Gorgeous wine. '78 Diamond Creek's are special and this was in the zone. Still has lots of structure/fruit to hold longer.

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  3/11/2018 - Vinnut Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Deep, dark garnet in color with ever-so-slight bricking & clearing at the edges. Full, fragrant & attractive nose of ripe fruit aromas of dark cherries, blackberries & plums with overtones of floral, eucalyptus & earthy/dusty notes, tobacco, leather, spices, mint, minerals, some mocha, smoky & a hint of cedar in the background. Full bodied with a very good concentration of well balanced & smooth textured, ripe fruit flavors of dark cherries, blackberries & plums with spices, herbs, minerals, cocoa. mushrooms & earthy. Long lingering & supple finish. Drinks quite well at present but is most likely at its peak of development at 40 years of age. While I do not detect it descending in its development, I doubt any further development would occur. Cork was clean & intact; fill was in the mid portion of the neck. A wonderful example of great, aged California Cabernet.

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