2004 Diamond Creek Assortment (3x Volcanic Hill, 2x Red Rock, 1x Gravelly)
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The 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Volcanic Hill is the most primordial, concentrated, masculine and meaty wine of this trio. It possesses surreal concentration as well as a stunningly opaque ruby/purple color, and wonderfully sweet tannin. Its layers of concentration and richness eclipse the more elegant, perfumed Gravelly Meadow and more solidly constructed Red Rock Terrace. Like its siblings, it remains ten years away from full maturity. It should drink well for 20+ years. One of the great iconic vineyards of Napa Valley, Diamond Creek Vineyards burst on the scene in the decade of the 1970s with some of the most monumental Cabernet Sauvignons ever made in Napa, if not the entire world (if you have never tasted their 1974s, 1975s, 1976s and 1978s, you’ve missed some of the most colossal Cabernet Sauvignons to have ever been produced in Napa). Tel. (707) 942-6926
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Very dark ruby. Super-ripe black fruits on the nose. Relatively mellow all the way through. Lots of sun-scorched fruit but the tannins are there and fine and the acidity seems well integrated. Archetypal Napa Valley style done well. This is particularly difficult to place... A complete wine that is well balanced and fun to drink, while not being a copy of bordeaux. Relatively complex. Blind guess: mountain. Revealed location: mountain. (JR)
The 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Volcanic Hill is the most primordial, concentrated, masculine and meaty wine of this trio. It possesses surreal concentration as well as a stunningly opaque ruby/purple color, and wonderfully sweet tannin. Its layers of concentration and richness eclipse the more elegant, perfumed Gravelly Meadow and more solidly constructed Red Rock Terrace. Like its siblings, it remains ten years away from full maturity. It should drink well for 20+ years. ||One of the great iconic vineyards of Napa Valley, Diamond Creek Vineyards burst on the scene in the decade of the 1970s with some of the most monumental Cabernet Sauvignons ever made in Napa, if not the entire world (if you have never tasted their 1974s, 1975s, 1976s and 1978s, you’ve missed some of the most colossal Cabernet Sauvignons to have ever been produced in Napa).||Tel. (707) 942-6926 Wine Advocate.April, 2014
About the producer
Diamond Creek, Napa’s first single-vineyard Cabernet estate, has defined terroir-driven winemaking since 1968. Founded by Al and Boots Brounstein, the winery pioneered site-specific Cabernet, producing age-worthy wines from Gravelly Meadow, Red Rock Terrace and Volcanic Hill.