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Manage Subscriptions2015 DeLille Cellars Chaleur Estate Blanc
Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend
- USA
- Washington
- Columbia Valley
Community Tasting Notes 101
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Daddyrusses Likes this wine: 92 points
January 19, 2024 - Based on previous tasting notes, I was expecting this to be past its prime. I found that the fruit was still excellent and it was crisp and balanced. The Semillon balances so well with the Sav Blanc. For the price, it's just such a solid white blend.
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prism wrote:
July 10, 2023 - I nursed this final bottle of eight over four evenings, paired with four very different meals, and it rose to the occasion each time. Chaleur Blanc is always a great QPR.
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385cbr wrote:
June 3, 2023 - Past its prime.
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prism wrote: 92 points
May 13, 2023 - Very nice, as I've come to expect from this wine, a reliably delicious White Bordeaux Blend; really versatile with food. Even Stouffer's Mac'n'Cheese...
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Ron Slye wrote: flawed
February 16, 2023 - Corked!!!! Ugh.
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By Paul Zitarelli
Full Pull Anniversary Week 4 of 5: DeLille Debuts, 10/6/2017(DeLille Cellars Chaleur Estate Blanc) Hello friends, and thanks for joining us as Anniversary Week continues! Full Pull launched about eight years ago, on October 5, 2009, and we use the occasion of our anniversary week to blast out some of our most compelling offers of the year. This is the fourth of our quintet of Anniversary Week offers. It may be Anniversary Week for us, but it’s Anniversary Year for DeLille Cellars. The winery – important to Washington wine history in general and the Woodinville scene in particular – is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Seems like the perfect occasion for Full Pull’s inaugural DeLille offer. To give you a sense of the scene when Charles Lil, Greg Lil, Jay Soloff, and Chris Upchurch launched DeLille in 1992, at that point there were exactly four wineries in Woodinville. Two are still around today (Ste Michelle and Columbia), and two are gone (French Creek and Facelli). So DeLille is the third-oldest winery still operating in Woodinville, and they essentially pioneered the boutique winery movement in the area. They were also among the first to make and promote Bordeaux blends, and among the first to consider items in the vineyard like row orientation (previously many of the vineyards were oriented to match the surrounding roads), spacing, and clonal selection. Pioneers to be sure, and 25 years in, the wines are better than ever:See key for # of bottles currently available.
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2015
- Type White
- Producer DeLille Cellars
- Varietal Sémillon-Sauvignon Blanc Blend
- Designation Chaleur Estate Blanc
- Vineyard n/a
- Country USA
- Region Washington
- SubRegion Columbia Valley
- Appellation Columbia Valley
- UPC Code 799419010136
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 384 (23%)
- Consumed 1,299 (77%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
chicken, or pork dishes, or with veal, pairs well with all manner of seafood, simple scampi or lite pasta with lite cream sauce, sushiWho Likes This Wine
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- RegionWashington
- SubRegionColumbia Valley
- AppellationColumbia Valley
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