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Diamond Creek Volcanic Hill 1979 is a mature-vintage Cabernet Sauvignon from a cult Napa producer. Diamond Creek has a celebrated history of producing some of the most sought-after single-vineyard wines in California. Situated on a south-facing slope, Volcanic Hill is Diamond Creek`s warmest microclimate and often produces its most powerful and long-lived wines. "I have made a lot of notations about alcohol levels in my notes on many of the younger wines I have tasted from California, as I firmly believe that it is a key fundament in determining how well a wine will age over the long-term, and for wines such as Cabernet Sauvignon, I frankly just have little interest drinking them young. Here is a beautiful example on how a lower octane Cabernet can age brilliantly, as the powerful style of Diamond Creek’s “mountain Cabernets” found the ’79 Volcanic Hill tipping the scales at a cool and collected twelve percent alcohol! I find it highly unlikely that even the most strident fans of the over the top jam juice style of Cabernet would find this wine “malnourished or green”, as it is a brilliant and utterly complete wine that is now at its apogee of peak drinkability. The stunning nose soars from the glass in a blaze of cassis, a bit of grilled meat, gentle tarry tones, a beautiful base of stony soil and a lovely top note of cigar smoke. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, tangy and beautifully complex, with a rock solid core of fruit, outstanding focus, length and grip and still just a touch of backend tannin to carry this wine far into the future. An utterly classic and legendary bottle of California Cabernet!" John Gilman, 2013
For over a half-century Diamond Creek has produced single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons from its stunning estate on Napa Valley’s Diamond Mountain. True to the mission of its founders, the winery has never veered from its path of creating wines that express the unique terroirs that coexist on this geologically diverse yet relatively small piece of earth.
Diamond Creek was founded in the late 1960s by Al and Boots Bounstein, true pioneers of fine winemaking in Napa. They recognised the potentially of Dimaond Mountain for growing CFor over a half-century Diamond Creek has produced single vineyard Cabernet Sauvignons from its stunning estate on Napa Valley’s Diamond Mountainabernet Sauvignon and were early advocates for a terroir / micro-climate focussed winemaking approach in Napa.
