USA

This barrel fermented, full bodied Chardonnay has mouth filling citrus fruit and a palate cleansing, bright finish. It will become richer and more complex with age.

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The 2013 Marsanne is bright, focused and nicely delineated. Pear, quince and floral notes abound in a crisp, energetic wine to drink over the next handful of years. The blend is 75% Marsanne and 25% Roussanne, which is added for texture and mid-palate.

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{color}White{color}                                                                                                {maturity}drink-now{maturity}
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{vintage}2013{vintage}
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[]Wine Enthusiast:: 89/100                                                                                           []Vinous Antonio Galloni:: 88/100
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This vineyard block just keeps getting better with age. It is rich without being heavy, and with moderate alcohol, has great balance for aging. Aged 2 years in barrel and 2 years in bottle so it shows well on the release. It is deeply colored with well integrated flavors of blueberries, cola and hints of black pepper. If you do keep a cellar, you could put this away for another 10-15 years!

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{color}Red{color}                                                               {maturity}ready-improve{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will improve{maturity-text}
{vintage}2014{vintage}{***}

Bright ruby in colour with purple tints, the nose offers prominent pepper spice with red berry and purple fruit aromas. Liquorice and garrigue notes add layers of complexity. The wine has a good level of concentration with balance and finesse. The tannins are powdery with some grip and the wine finishes with a pleasant juicy core. Drink now to 2023.

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[]Wine Enthusiast::88/100
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The 2015 Chardonnay Hyde Vineyard has a gregarious white peach, green mango and passion fruit nose with touches of cashews, lightly browned toast and butterscotch. Medium-bodied, the palate is chock-full of zip and zing, with a great intensity of vibrant tropical fruit flavors and a wicked acid backbone, finishing on a lingering mineral note.

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{color}White{color}                                                                                           {maturity}ready-keep{maturity}
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{vintage}2015{vintage}
{ratings}
[]The Wine Advocate:: 93/100 
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David Ramey’s premier single vineyard Napa Cabernet has masses of concentration but has a foil of fresher acidity from the cool 2011 vintage.  Undoubtedly ageworthy, the ripe cassis fruit makes it delicious now.

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{vintage}2011{vintage}
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Medium garnet-purple colored, the 2015 Claret offers notes of blackberries, kirsch and red currants with hints of earth and dried herbs. The medium to full-bodied palate is plush, velvety and open for business, with some baking spice notes coming through on the finish.

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{vintage}2015{vintage}
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Pale yellow-gold. Intense, mineral-inflected orchard and pit fruit, lavender and buttered toast aromas are complicated by oyster shell, fennel and vanilla nuances. Concentrated yet nervy and light on its feet, offering palate-staining, oak-kissed pear nectar, Meyer lemon and candied ginger flavors underscored by a vein of smoky minerality. Shows superb energy and power on the floral-tinged finish, which hangs on with serious, mineral-driven tenacity.

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{color}White{color}                                                               {maturity}ready-keep{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will keep{maturity-text}
{vintage}2015{vintage}
{ratings}
   [] James Suckling:: 94/100
   [] Wine Enthusiast:: 93/100
   [] Vinous:: 94/100{ratings}{***}

Whole-bunch pressed, some of this is barrel-fermented, with the balance in stainless steel – the first for richness, the second for energy. Once blended, for Véronique Drouhin, it is as if one brought together elements of a pure Chablis and an elegant Meursault. Cool & discreet. 100% Chardonnay.

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{color}White{color}
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{maturity-text}Drink now{maturity-text}
{vintage}2015{vintage}
{ratings}
[]The Wine Advocate::91/100
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Since 1978 Steve Kistler and Mark Bixler have been making some of California's longest-lived, elegant and most sought-after Chardonnays and Pinots. If you're a fan of Kistler's wines, you won't want to miss this rare opportunity to get your hands on a bottle of the Les Noisetiers. Made in the same style as the winery's single-vineyard Chardonnays, this blends fruit from a number of top-notch vineyards. 

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{vintage}2012{vintage}
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The 2015 Quilceda Creek "CVR" Columbia Valley Red Wine is a wonderful preview into the incredible 2015 vintage. A combination of all our vineyard sites, it is filled with satisfying red and blue fruits, smoke, spice and minerals. One of the best CVRs to date, it is the first vintage of CVR that will bear the new label showing an iridescent black version of the classic gold Quilceda Creek label. This blend of 81% Cabernet Sauvignon, 11% Merlot, 4% Cabernet Franc and 4% Petit Verdot will be best enjoyed over the next 15 years.

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{color} Red{color}                                                               {maturity}ready-improve{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will improve{maturity-text}
{vintage}2015{vintage}
{ratings}
 [] The Wine Advocate:: 92/100 {ratings}       {***}

The 2015 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon Columbia Valley is a truly majestic wine with great purity, class and breed. The wealth of blackberry, blueberry and black cherry fruit is remarkable, with hints of spring flowers, cocoa powder, roasted herbs, forest floor and minerals. This wine will have a large drinking window due to the seamless integration of all its elements. Drink now through 2037.

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{color}Red{color}                                                               {maturity}ready-improve{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will improve{maturity-text}
{vintage}2015{vintage}
{ratings}
   [] Jeb Dunnuck:: 99/100
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The 2014 Quilceda Creek Palengat Proprietary Red Wine was sourced from Champoux, Palengat, Lake Wallula and Wallula Vineyards which are located in the Horse Heaven Hills AVA. This highly expressive blend has violet infused plum and crème de cassis fruit that coats the entire palate with accents of five spice powder, black truffles, vanilla and minerals. Aged for 21 months in new French oak, it is a blend of 73% cabernet Sauvignon, 18% Merlot and 9% Cabernet Franc.

{***}{region}Washington{region}
{color}Red{color}                                                                                                {maturity}ready-improve{maturity} {maturity-text}Ready, but will improve{maturity-text}
{vintage}2014{vintage}
{ratings}         
[]The Wine Advocate:: 96/100   
[]Vinous:: 94/100
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The 2015 Pinot Noir Sonoma Coast is a dense, powerful wine that shows the natural intensity of the last year in the four year drought cycle. Powerful and concentrated in the glass, the 2015 packs a serious punch. Readers will have to be patient with the 2015, as it is in no mood to show all its cards, much less deliver the pleasure it ultimately will. 

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{vintage}2015{vintage}

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   [] Vinous:: 91/100{ratings}{***}