Volume 32, Issue 10: August 2008
CABERNET SAUVIGNON SUBSCRIBERS ONLY In cool vintages like 2005, the wines that succeed are likely to be balanced, layered and ageworthy, but those that miss will be thin and green while those that are pushed too hard will be coarse and low in fruit. This is a vintage in which selectivity has never been more important. 1968 and 1967 Cabernet Sauvignon Retrospective SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Our look at 40 year old Cabernets finds many that are still alive and kicking. Best Buys SUBSCRIBERS ONLY You can rely on Best Buys to bring you wines that are easy on the palate and equally easy on the pocket book.				SUBSCRIBERS ONLY CONNOISSEURS' FORUMS with edtiors Charles Olken and Stephen Eliot. · wine price vs rating 2005 Diamond Creek Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon Volcanic Hill Diamond Mountain The question that should be asked of the new Diamond Creek wines each year is not "which one is best", but rather "how are their respective terroirs manifest?" The fact, quite simply, is that they are always good, and, in 2005, the Volcanic Hill bottling is a carefully constructed Cabernet that shows none of the central thinness that is all too typical in wines of the vintage. Dense, deep, impeccably balanced and very complex even now, it does not rely on excessive ripeness or fancy oak and is instead a complete and wonderfully well-extracted wine that is at once structured and classy. Do not think about pulling its cork for at least seven or eight years, and, given the ageworthy nature of Diamond Creek wines as a whole, we expect this one to develop famously for a decade or probably two. $175.00 Score: 94