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Reverie 2005 Estate Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
- $85
With their ’05 reserve, Reverie has produced possibly their greatest Cabernet Sauvignon ever. But be forewarned, it needs cellaring. Not a long time, just enough to soften and sweeten a bit. Right now, the tannins shove to the front of the line, pushing aside the delicious blackberries and currants. But the wine has Bordeaux-like elegance. Even a few years in the…
— S.H.
(4/1/2008)
Reverie 2009 Estate Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $93
If you cellar only a few Napa Cabernets a year, this is one you should seek out. It’s so tannic, so shut down, yet so explosive in blackberries, currants, dark chocolate and sweet oak, that it will easily negotiate the next decade. If you really have to open it before 2015, at least give it a decent decant.
— S.H.
(4/1/2012)
Reverie 2008 Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $85
You have to have a great deal of faith to buy this wine, because right now it’s almost undrinkable due to the tannins. They’re as hard and firm as a brick wall, and whatever fruit there is, and there’s plenty, is effectively hidden from the palate’s pleasure. Discerning tasters will detect massive blackberries and black currants, buried deep down like pirate’s…
— S.H.
(6/1/2011)
Reverie 2008 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $65
Impressive for the volume of its flavor, which is all intensely concentrated mountain blackberries and cassis, with an interesting and savory salty earthiness of green olives. Beautifully oaked, too, so sweet and refined in toast. But those notorious Diamond Mountain tannins are gigantic, and the wine needs serious cellar time. Stash until 2014, and the drinkabiity…
— S.H.
(6/1/2011)
Reverie 2003 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $55
There’s a nice classic structure to this dry wine, but it’s pretty much in lockdown tannin mode now. However, underneath those tannins is a solid core of blackberries and sweet cassis, and one of these days, when the wine has been aged and decanted to rid it of sediment, the sweetness should be gorgeous. Drink 2010–2016.
— S.H.
(4/1/2007)
Reverie 2009 Estate Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- Online Exclusive
- $75
Like almost all of Reverie’s Cabernets on release, this one needs time in the cellar. Tasted in fall 2011, it’s tight and grapey, with blackberry jam flavors girded by a firm, stony minerality and sweet, but hard, tannins. Give it 6–8 years.
— S.H.
(4/1/2012)
Reverie 2003 Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon (Diamond Mountain)
- Cellar Selection
- $75
Shows typical Diamond Mountain youthful tannins that are tough and hard, and in this good vintage a dense, vibrant core of cassis and cherry fruit that’s jamlike in its richness. Very dry, the wine will benefit from decanting, but it really wants fairly extended cellaring. Hold until 2009, then drink through 2015.
— S.H.
(4/1/2007)
Reverie 2008 Estate Petit Verdot (Diamond Mountain)
- Online Exclusive
- $75
Petite Verdot is a difficult wine to make interesting in its own right, but Reverie has pulled it off. It’s very much like a Diamond Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon, dry, tannic and filled with blackberry, cherry and cassis flavors. Not exactly clear why you’d want a Petite Verdot instead of a Cabernet, except for the interest value, but it’s certainly an achievement.
— S.H.
(6/1/2011)
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