Cabernet Sauvignon

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.

• 201390 pts

  This is a brawny, strongly powerful wine, fully displaying the grip of mountain fruit. Blackberry and black currant complement the tobacco and cedar. Drink now through 2023.

• 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.

• 201185 pts

  Decant this wine for a few hours before drinking to allow it to mellow. Straight from the bottle, it's rather harsh in tannins. The fruit is sharp and ripe like cherry-menthol candy.

• 201088 pts

  This manages to combine instant drinkability with Napa complexity, resulting in a really nice wine. Although it's not an ager, it rises to the occasion with sweetly ripe raspberries, cherries and blackberries, plush, polished tannins and a lovely coating of smoky oak.

• 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…

• 200789 pts

  Pretty sharp in tannins and acids, even for a Stags Leap Cab. Although it has plenty of blackberry, cherry, currant and oak flavors, it's a hard wine. The palate finds so much to like, it wants it to be softer, but it's not, so the gamble is on aging. Try after 2013.

• 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…

• 200592 pts

  Like Martin Ray's other '05 reserve Cabs, the Stags Leap bottling is rich, soft and immediately appealing for its luscious array of flavors. What's not to like about blackberries, cherries, raspberries, chocolate, cedar and smoky vanilla? The tannins are very fine, giving the wi…

• 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…