2014 Quilceda Creek Galitzine Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon

Vintage Notes:

Varietals:	100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Vineyards:	97% Cabernet Sauvignon from Galitzine Vineyard, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon Lake Wallula Vineyard
Barrels:	100% new French Oak
Bottled:	June 2016

Paul Golitzin, Director of Winemaking, comments:

The 2014 Quilceda Creek Galitzine Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon is from the Red Mountain AVA. It is an exotic and rich wine filled with aromas and flavors of blackberry and black cherry fruit with nuances of chocolate, forest floor and minerals. Aged in 100% new French oak for 21 months, it is 97% Cabernet Sauvignon from Galitzine Vineyard and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon from Lake Wallula Vineyard, for extra complexity and dimension.

Wine Advocate Review

"The finest vintage ever for this cuvee, the utterly spellbinding 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon Galitzine Vineyard is [100%] sic Red Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon that was brought up in new barrels. Slightly deeper and richer than the Columbia Valley Cabernet, its deep ruby/purple color is followed by a smorgasbord of graphite, crushed violets, crushed rocks, cassis and dark chocolate. With incredible richness, ultra-fine tannin, no hard edges and a stacked mid-palate, give this crazy good red 2-3 years of cellaring and enjoy over the following two decades! Bravo to the team at Quilceda!"
Score: 100 Pts.

Jeb Dunnuck, Wine Advocate, WA #231 June, 2017

Washington Wine Blog Review

"This 100% Cabernet wine was sourced from the esteemed Galitzine Vineyard in Red Mountain, which was first planted in 2000 and 2001. The Galitzine Vineyard is 100% owned and controlled by Quilceda Creek. The wine was aged for 21 months in 100% French oak prior to botlting. This Cabernet has an even more dense core than 2014 'Columbia Valley' Cabernet bottling. The aromatics are loaded with dark fruits including candied black cherry, black raspberry cordial, Hoisin sauce, creme de cassis and Turkish coffee with hints of crushed mint. These gorgeous aromatics make you sit at your glass and think of this hot vintage and vineyard site which is really coming into its own. The mouthfeel and texture to this stunning Cabernet wine is simply incredible. The mid-palate weight is simply massive at this juncture and is like nothing that I have sampled in the past year from Washington. Moderate to major tannins frame uber-dense flavors of black olive tapenade, sweet pipe tobacco, wild blackberry preserves, dark chocolate shavings and suggestions of Chinese black tea. Exotic, intense and layered, this massive wine will cellar marvelously over the next two decades. The wine is becoming even more divergent to the 'Columbia Valley' bottling as this shows even more intensity and fruit weight on the mid-palate. This is nearly impossible to resist right now in its nascency due to the massive weight but try to resist it for at least another year for the tannins to mellow. Drink 2018-2035"
Score: 99 pts

Owen Bargreen, Washington Wine Blog

Vinous Review

"(100% new oak): Bright ruby-red. Slightly more port-like on the nose than the flagship Cabernet, offering scents of black cherry, licorice and dark chocolate (Red Mountain is typically a few degrees hotter than Champoux Vineyard in Horse Heaven Hills, notes Golitzin). Compellingly plush, broad and sweet, conveying a bulletproof quality to its highly concentrated cassis and licorice flavors. The tannins here are slightly less noble than those of the flagship Cabernet, but I'm quibbling. This stunner finishes strong and long, with steadily building fruit and no loss of shape."
Score: 95 pts

Stephen Tanzer, Vinous, October 2017