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Diamond Creek Vineyards – Volcanic Hill

--One 1.5L 2017 Diamond Creek Cabernet Sauvignon, “Volcanic Hill”

Boots and Al Brounstein founded Diamond Creek Vineyards in the late 1960s. During the next four decades, their tireless energy, hard work and dedication produced a tradition of excellence, creating one of the world’s finest terroir-driven Cabernets honored and cherished by connoisseurs the world over. Diamond Creek Vineyards is California’s first estate winery to produce Cabernet Sauvignon exclusively.

This lot brings you a Magnum of 2017 Diamond Creek Cabernet Sauvignon, Volcanic Hill.

Volcanic Hill is comprised of 8 acres of south facing hillside vineyard. It is the warmest of all their micro-climates. The color of the soil is gray, and the consistency is that of fluffy, volcanic ash, originally deposited from the eruption of Mt. Konocti 8 million years ago. 

Volcanic Hill is the ‘longest lived’ of the Diamond Creek wines. Winemaker Phil Steinschriber, who has been making the Diamond Creek wines since 1992, describes these wines as " ... full bodied, loaded with intense ripe berry fruit, cassis, violets and a smoky richness, finishing with good length and firm tannins."

The Volcanic Hill bottling also includes a small amount of the extraordinary Petit Verdot grape.

Visionary pioneer Al Brounstein defied modern conventions and planted Bordeaux varietals on then-very-secluded Diamond Mountain, in Calistoga. The three vineyards which comprise Diamond Creek produce a small amount of long-lived wines that are elegant with great depth and richness, and you can taste the differences imparted to the wine by the distinct soils and micro-climates of Diamond Creek Vineyards.  Al was one of the first vintners to speak of "terroir".

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