Martin Ray Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain District)

Ficha técnica

Tipo

Red

Uva

Cabernet Sauvignon

País

United States

Região

Diamond Mountain District · Napa

Denominação

Diamond Mountain District

Corpo

full

Acidez

medium

Tanino

high

Doçura

dry

Safras avaliadas

• 201491 pts

  A 100% varietal wine from the mountain appellation, this bristles in spicy acidity sparked in black pepper and clove. Muscularly built, it offers generous tannin and blue fruit, alongside an element of scrubby sage and cocoa powder.

• 201290 pts

  Velvety chocolate and dark plum flavors give this wine a smooth, satisfying mouthfeel, assisted by well-integrated oak. Dark and brooding, it reflects its hillside provenance without succumbing entirely to an overripe or overdone style.

• 200991 pts

  Although this is not particularly Diamond Mountainesque, there's no denying how pretty it is. Softly tannic and minerally, it offers a peacock's tail of blackberries, black cherries, plum sauce, dark chocolate, anise, black pepper and sweet toasty oak. Drink now with grilled ste…

• 200692 pts

  A fine, fancy Cabernet. It shows Diamond Mountain's famously hard tannins, but they're so finely ground, the wine is actually drinkable now, with a brief decant. It's entirely dry, with complex waves of blackberries, cherries, currants, violets, mocha, minerals and, of course, p…

• 200492 pts

  Diamond Mountain, on the Mayacamas side of Napa Valley, has long been known for producing Cabs that possess hard tannins in their youth. Not this one. Modern tannin management has yielded a lush, lusciously soft wine, beguiling in blackberry and cherry pie filling and mocha flav…