2004 Diamond Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Gravelly Meadow

The 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon Gravelly Meadow takes its name from the brown, stony, gravelly soils of this 5-acre vineyard. It possesses that crushed rock, smoky barbecue note that resembles a top-class Pessac-Leognan from Bordeaux. A dark ruby/purple color is followed by wonderfully sweet, concentrated red and black fruits, a certain smoky earthiness, sweet tannin and a textured, full-bodied mouthfeel. This potentially profound red wine can be drunk over the next 20 years. From an aromatic complexity perspective, it may eclipse the Red Rock Terrace. Lastly, the biggest of these single vineyards is the 8-acre site known as Volcanic Hill, whose white tufa volcanic soils are in total contrast to the gravelly soils and red, iron-rich, clay soils of its two siblings. 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