2004 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon

Community Tasting Notes (253) Avg Score: 94.4 points

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  4/12/2024 - NY Wino Likes this wine: 98 Points

  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.

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  3/1/2024 - Experienced palate Likes this wine: 98 Points

  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.

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  12/28/2023 - Zeds wrote:

  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.

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  12/25/2023 - LuckyLars wrote: flawed

  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.

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  12/10/2023 - Glenn228 Likes this wine: 93 Points

  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.

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