2015 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley
Vintage Notes:
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Varietal:
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100% Cabernet Sauvignon
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Vineyards:
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Champoux, Lake Wallula, Palengat, and Wallula Gap
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Barrels:
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100% New French Oak
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Time in Barrel:
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20 months
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Bottled:
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June 2017
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Paul Golitzin, Director of Winemaking, comments:
We are pleased to offer you the
2015 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley. The 2015 growing season was the warmest ever recorded
in Washington State. We achieved sufficient shoot growth early in the season to provide the fruit shading during the hottest June days. We have also installed overhead
misters in all of our vineyard sites to cool the fruit, if needed, to produce the finest grapes we can grow, regardless of extreme weather. Almost all of our
Cabernet Sauvignon achieved its final ripening under perfect, mid-70 degree Fahrenheit temperatures in October. The results were very small and concentrated
berries full of flavor and freshness.
The
2015 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley is a truly majestic wine with great purity, class and breed. The wealth of blackberry,
blueberry and black cherry fruit is remarkable, with hints of spring flowers, cocoa powder, roasted herbs, forest floor and minerals. This wine will have a large
drinking window due to the seamless integration of all its elements. Drink now through 2037.
"The flagship is the 2015 Cabernet Sauvignon, 100% Cabernet Sauvignon mostly from Champoux with the balance from Palengat and Wallula vineyards.
Crème de cassis, graphite, black licorice, unsmoked tobacco, and hints of chocolate emerge from this beauty and it continues to gain depth and nuance
with time in the glass. Full-bodied, deep, and layered with an incredible purity and elegance on the palate, it's already accessible but has more than
enough tannin, depth, and balance to evolve for two decades or more."
"I wasn't able to taste the 2016s from Snohomish, WA based Quilceda Creek, but their 2015s are serious, sexy, opulent wines that check-in near the top of the vintage."
Score: 99 Pts.
Jeb Dunnuck,
JebDunnuck.com, April 5 2018