Quilceda Creek

WINE TALK
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Tracy,

If you decide to buy the wine, consider it “futures.” They are not drinkable upon release nor in the near future. We opened a 2003 Cab last year and it was tight as a drum, even after a double decant and 3 hours in a decanter. After 3 days open in the decanter, it started to show its stuff, but faded before it fully opened up. My guess, based on our tasting, the 2003 will be getting close to ready between 2023 and 2028. You may try one of the ager/manipulators on the market to test one bottle, but these wines need a lot of cellar time if you want to enjoy them at maturity.

And by the way, there aren’t that many wines made for the long haul these days.

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Nice.

23

This seems an interesting wine - very polarizing, but at the same time nobody can/will actually describe it or liken it to something else.

If you like or don’t like it - why? what other wine does it resemble you of?

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As this is the CVR, the price point is low enough to buy a couple and find out for yourself. As others have said, they can be big and have their share of oak, so for the oak adverse I would look elsewhere. They tend to show much better young than the main wine.