2022 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Galitzine Vineyard
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The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Galitzine Vineyard has dramatically unfurling scents of blackberry and blueberry preserves, steak sauce, aniseed, garrigue and latent spicy accents. The full-bodied palate is concentrated with spicy, savory flavors and powdery tannins. It’s balanced by fireworks of fresh acidity and has a very long, layered finish. 1,325 cases were made.
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Savory red fruit dominates in the 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Galitzine Vineyard, from Clone 8 grapes grown in the warm mountainous region. Muscular structure contrasts against natural acidity balance to show a brightness of beautiful, unmistakable red mountain wine, savory herb, and gravel. It’s very much built to age another 30-40 years.
The 2022 Cabernet Sauvignon Galitzine bursts from the glass with a cascade of ripe black raspberries, exotic spice, hints of pipe tobacco, stone dust and clove. Creamy and supple in feel, it washes across the palate with textures of pure silk. A core of ripe red berries smoothes over the senses like molten chocolate and leaves a caking of crisp minerality in its wake. Resonances of licorice linger as the 2022 finishes with amazing length and power. Wonderfully rounded tannins frame the experience, with echoes of lavender pastille that slowly fade. Quilceda Creek has done an amazing job of taming those stern Red Mountain tannins.
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.