2010 Diamond Creek, Gravelly Meadow, Napa Valley 1x750ml

Vinous 94

The 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Gravelly Meadow is just starting to open up. Sweet black cherry, smoke, licorice, incense, spices and orange peel are all laced together in an attractive, mid-weight wine built on layers of sweet perfumed fruit. Hints of rose petal and mint develop in the glass, adding an attractive upper register to the expressive red-toned, brambly fruit. Quite surprisingly, the 2010 is already enjoyable today, but it should drink well for another 15+ years, if not considerably longer. The Gravelly Meadow is the most approachable of Diamond Creek’s 2010s. [Antonio Galloni, 12/01/2014]

Anticipated maturity: 2017-2035

Robert Parker 92

The dense purple-colored 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon Gravelly Meadow offers stony notes intermixed with cassis and gravel along with a striking minerality, rich, deep cassis fruit, well-concealed and integrated new oak, and a long, structured finish. These cuvees are generally meant for considerable cellaring, and this wine needs to be forgotten for 5-6 years and drunk over the following 20-25 years. Definitely on the comeback trail, this iconic winery, which is celebrating 40+ years in Napa Valley, has a resume that includes some of the greatest wines made in Napa during its heyday in the 1970s (the 1974, 1976s and 1978s). Tel. (707) 942-6926 [Robert M. Parker, Jr., 31/10/2013]

Anticipated maturity: 2018-2042