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2015 White Wine Chaleur Blanc

Wine Details
Release Price

$35 (2019)

Place of Origin

United States

Columbia Valley

Columbia Valley

Color

White

Grape/Blend

69% Sauvignon Blanc, 31% Sémillon (2019 vintage)

Vintages
2019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007200620052004200320022001200019991998199719961995
Reviews & Tasting Notes

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Drinking Window

2017 - 2022

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Winemaker Chris Upchurch told me he’s never seen anything like the growing season of 2015. “It was very hot and very advanced, with physical maturity arriving very quickly,” he said. “We saw dark seeds in the middle of August, beginning with Sauvignon Blanc and Roussanne. The flavors were advancing as fast as the sugars, so the sugars were still fairly reasonable at harvest.” The poor spring had put a lid on the eventual yields and made for more concentrated fruit, he added. “In the end, the vintage wasn’t terribly extreme, just a couple weeks earlier than usual.”

Most of the wines I tasted from DeLille this summer and in recent weeks were whites from ’15 and reds from ’13. The earlier vintage started off quite hot, noted Upchurch, but conditions cooled off nicely in September. Incidentally, although DeLille has expanded production of its white wines in recent years, mostly by getting more fruit from its top vineyard sources like Boushey, Klipsun and Sagemoor Bacchus, fully 80% of the winery’s production is red wine. Fans of this producer’s wines should note that the Doyenne name has disappeared as of the 2014 vintage, except for the wine previously labeled Aix, which henceforth will be called DeLille Cellars Doyenne.

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