April 12, 2024 - Bought from winery from mailing list and properly cellared until tonight. Decanted magnum for 3 hours, then drank at Gallaghers with prime rib. Pretty amazing experience! Deep purple color, powerful bouquet of rich red and dark fruit and cedar. The wine is pretty massive for 20 years old, with tons of rich deep fruit, big but smooth tannins and a super long delicious finish.
March 1, 2024 - Impeccably stored wine (little ullage perfect cork) maybe that is the difference, as I don't get most recent reviews. Spectacular nose with ripe fruit still exploding out of the glass. Spice, cassis, black licorice, with bittersweet chocolate and velvety tannin coating your palate. Very long finish with layered complexity. A quintessential Quilceda creek! For me it simply doesn't get much better, so drink up....cheers.
December 28, 2023 - Drank with Mike & Dawn. Tasted it blind and everyone thought it was a Bordeaux blend. Not much fruit left so mostly tertiary on the nose and palate. Forest floor, smoky, and a bit of tobacco. Over time it smelled more of an ashtray. Di thought it tasted of stewed prunes on the palate. The tannins were soft and it was silky for a 20 year old wine, basically it was amazing.
December 25, 2023 - The wine seemed a bit over extracted - the comment that it seemed Amarone like rang true for me. Lots of fruit but not much acidity. A touch disjointed. We enjoyed it with rack of lamb but it was not the treat we were hoping for.
December 10, 2023 - After our first of two bottles we recently purchased was found to be corked, I opened the second. Savory stewed fruit and tertiary notes on both nose and palate. It reminded me of an Amarone, though my wife disagreed. Tannins well-integrated and mostly gone. Finish was shorter than hoped. Drink now.
December 10, 2023 - Badly corked. Wet newspaper.
October 31, 2023 - Maybe an off bottle, but I suspect just past it’s prime. A bit thin, faded, not much finish. Showing chocolate notes, some stewed fruit, tobacco. Definitely drink up this is going downhill.
October 21, 2023 - Needed 2 hours to soften. Very good depth and character between 2 to 3 hours. Kept getting better. Drink now to 2029.
September 23, 2023 - Rich, delicious plum fruit with cassis flavors, excellent structure, soften tannins, short finish, very forward palate tasting, disappointed that it wasn't round and fully in the mouth
September 3, 2023 - 94-95. This surprised me a bit in that it can go on for a while imo. It was terrific now. There is more time for it to develop. Tannins are strong for a wine that is almost 20 years old. Good balance though. Could be a point or higher.