2018 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon

BY ERIC GUIDO |

There are very few wines that I personally seek out year after year. For a wine to become a recurring purchase for my cellar, it takes a proven track record, unparalleled quality among peers, vintage-to-vintage consistency and relative value. The Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon is such a wine, even with a steady price increase over the past ten years. Labeled simply with the Columbia Valley AVA, this dark beauty actually hails from two vineyards, both located in the more-defined Horse Heaven Hills AVA within Columbia Valley. Ninety percent of the blend is sourced from the highly regarded Champoux vineyard, with the 10% balance coming from the Mach One vineyard that sits 50 feet up on a plateau above the Columbia River. The 2018 is a gorgeous expression of the vintage, showing radiance mixed with fruit intensity and energy that will promise two decades or more of pleasurable evolution. 

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There are very few wines that I personally seek out year after year. For a wine to become a recurring purchase for my cellar, it takes a proven track record, unparalleled quality among. peers, vintage-to-vintage consistency and. relative value. The Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon is such a wine, even with steady price increase over the past ten years.

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