Diamond Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Red Rock Terrace 2008
Red
Diamond Mountain District, United States
7.8
WineSaint
Austere and forbidding, built on a framework of crushed granite and graphite. Dark plum and cassis emerge slowly, framed by tobacco leaf and wet stone minerality. The structure is formidable. This Red Rock Terrace demands patience but promises remarkable evolution over the next decade.
dark plumcassisgraphitetobacco leaf
Label
Diamond Creek
→Diamond Creek has bottled its Diamond Mountain estate as three distinct single-vineyard Cabernets since the late 1960s, each tied to a specific soil type. One of Napa's earliest and most consequential single-vineyard programs.