DIAMOND CREEK Volcanic Hill Cabernet Sauvignon 2018
- SKU:
- 3318055
- UPC:
- 2310056697641
Calling all fans of collectable cult Californian Cabs. We’ve got a treat in store for you…
Volcanic Hill is the longest lived of Diamond Creek’s sensational Cabernet Sauvignon wines. Being the warmest of the three microclimates this vineyard creates the biggest richest red full of black cherry blackberry crème de cassis espresso liquorice and smokiness. 2018 presented near-perfect growing conditions and the wines from this vintage are simply sensational. We’re predicting huge scores from critics when they eventually get their hands on this.
Al Brounstein was so inspired by a wine appreciation class that he quit his job as a salesman immediately. A true Francophile he flew to France and took cuttings from Cabernet Sauvignon vines in Bordeaux then smuggled them via Mexico into the US. He and his wife Adelle ‘Boots’ Brounstein then bought an overgrown and rocky plot of prune trees in the north of Napa Valley. That region is now known as Diamond Mountain District and the iconic wines produced at the Brounstein’s Diamond Creek Vineyard helped to put it on the map.
Founded in 1968 Diamond Creek became California’s first exclusively Cabernet Sauvignon estate. They found that the area they’d bought contained three very different kinds of soil resulting in three very different wines: Volcanic Hill Red Rock Terrace and Gravelly Meadow. Adding this information to the labels they became only the second producer in the state to use vineyard designations.
The Brounsteins have now sadly passed away but nothing puts the fine wine status they achieved in context quite like Diamond Creek’s new owners. In 2020 the vineyards were purchased by the Rouzauds – one of the wine world’s most powerful and discerning families who also look after Champagne Louis Roederer Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Domaines Ott Maison Delas Ramos Pinto Merry Edwards and Champagne Deutz.
SKU No.: 3318055
Style No.: 838667
Region: Napa
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon,Merlot,Malbec
Closure: Cork
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 14.1%
Volume: 750ml
Allergens: Sulphites
Calling all fans of collectable cult Californian Cabs. We’ve got a treat in store for you…
Volcanic Hill is the longest lived of Diamond Creek’s sensational Cabernet Sauvignon wines. Being the warmest of the three microclimates this vineyard creates the biggest richest red full of black cherry blackberry crème de cassis espresso liquorice and smokiness. 2018 presented near-perfect growing conditions and the wines from this vintage are simply sensational. We’re predicting huge scores from critics when they eventually get their hands on this.
Al Brounstein was so inspired by a wine appreciation class that he quit his job as a salesman immediately. A true Francophile he flew to France and took cuttings from Cabernet Sauvignon vines in Bordeaux then smuggled them via Mexico into the US. He and his wife Adelle ‘Boots’ Brounstein then bought an overgrown and rocky plot of prune trees in the north of Napa Valley. That region is now known as Diamond Mountain District and the iconic wines produced at the Brounstein’s Diamond Creek Vineyard helped to put it on the map.
Founded in 1968 Diamond Creek became California’s first exclusively Cabernet Sauvignon estate. They found that the area they’d bought contained three very different kinds of soil resulting in three very different wines: Volcanic Hill Red Rock Terrace and Gravelly Meadow. Adding this information to the labels they became only the second producer in the state to use vineyard designations.
The Brounsteins have now sadly passed away but nothing puts the fine wine status they achieved in context quite like Diamond Creek’s new owners. In 2020 the vineyards were purchased by the Rouzauds – one of the wine world’s most powerful and discerning families who also look after Champagne Louis Roederer Château Pichon-Longueville Comtesse de Lalande Domaines Ott Maison Delas Ramos Pinto Merry Edwards and Champagne Deutz.
SKU No.: 3318055
Style No.: 838667