2019 Quilceda Creek Tchelistcheff Cabernet Sauvignon
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All Clone 412 from the Mach One Vineyard, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Tchelistcheff has an incredibly floral, complex, classic style in its darker cherry and currant fruits as well as spice, forest floor, spring flowers, violets, and spice-driven aromas and flavors. Beautiful on the palate as well, it's full-bodied, has a seamless, elegant mouthfeel, ultra-fine tannins, and a great finish, with nicely integrated background oak. It offers pleasure today yet will benefit from 4-5 years of bottle and keep for 25+ years. This fruit in the past went into the Palengat release, but it certainly stands on its own.
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Jeb Dunnuck
Anthony Mueller, Wine Advocate
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Succulent and focused, the 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon Tchelistcheff Clone 412 is delicious and exuberant on the nose with a fruit-forward and dusty nature and a kaleidoscope of expression in the glass. Full-bodied in the mouth, the Clone 412 comes with the same shine and polish as the Clone 685 of the same range, but this wine has a slightly more compact frame and is marginally less hedonistic. Offering a more approachable expression in youth, this Cabernet will be almost ready upon release—it's already firing on all cylinders. It’s a gorgeous wine that brings me back for a second and third sip, as it seduces me with its elegance and richness. Only 281 cases were made for the world. Bravo!
About the producer
Founded in 1978, Quilceda Creek helped put Washington Cabernet on the world stage. Mentored by André Tchelistcheff, the family-owned winery became renowned for its powerful, age-worthy Cabernets and was the first U.S. winery outside California to earn 100 points from Wine Advocate.