2022
Quilceda Creek
“Palengat” Cabernet Sauvignon

The 2022 growing season started with a cool and wet spring, which led into above average temperatures that continued through October. These conditions, coupled with our precise farming practices, were ideal for fruit development and extended hang time, resulting in optimal ripeness.
100 points
"The 100% Cabernet Sauvignon ‘Palengat’ is a single vineyard and single clone wine from the Horse Heaven Hills AVA. Violets and creosote with wet rock and wild blackberry compote mark the nose. The palate is plush with serious concentration and underlying finesse. Silky tannins line this stunning wine that is going to age so gracefully. The balance here is world-class. Enjoy over the next two decades. Drink 2026-2045."
100 points
"The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Palengat is 100% varietal from Mach One Vineyard, Clone 685 grapes, a rarity for the region. Dominant in purple fruit and lavender, it has tremendous tension, beautiful aromatics, and a fine-tuned sense of precision and polish, just seamless nose to tail. Unctuous, luxurious, and dialed in at 1,325 cases, it’s richly powerful but so pleasurable to drink in its youth; I can only imagine how much more decadent it will become over the next 20-25 years."
100 points
"The 2022 Palengat Clone 685 Cabernet Sauvignon is all ungrafted vines coming from Mach One Vineyard. Deep garnet-purple colored, it erupts from the glass with powerful scents of crème de cassis, licorice, coffee beans, and preserved plums, leading to hints of mint tea, cedar, and dusty soil. The full-bodied palate is built like a brick house with a solid backbone of grainy tannins and wonderful tension supporting the dense black fruit and spicy layers, finishing with epic length and depth."
98 points
"The 2022 ‘Palengat’ Cabernet from Quilceda Creek is a remarkable showing in this vintage, offering a refined and elegant expression of clone 685. Aromas of ripe blackberries and boysenberries immediately captivate, intermingled with nuances of tobacco, violets, graphite, charcoal, exotic spices, and fresh savory herbs. On the palate, it reveals a medium-to-full body with impeccable structure, showcasing beautifully polished tannins that create a silky, finessed mouthfeel. The wine is remarkably pure, with layers of complexity and vibrant freshness that leads into a long, seamless finish. Already impressive in its youth, this stunning wine promises an exciting evolution ahead."
98 points
"This full-bodied, complex and sophisticated red has wonderfully fragrant aromas of pine cones, cloves, blueberries, black plums, rosemary, hot stones and black tea leaves. So polished and deep, with creamy and ripe tannins that spread across the palate. Beautiful. Very long. Clone 685 from the Mach One vineyard. Try from 2028."