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    12/3/2022 - wrote: 89 Points

    No decant this time. Dark color & muted Cab nose. Has an annoying tartness right off on the palate. Can’t say I’m a fan of this. Body is medium structure but one dimensional. Has some nice flavors but for the cost terrible QPR. I tried liking this wine but don’t really. I won’t be buying this again. Nice experiment but in the end a failed one.

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    8/26/2022 - wrote: 89 Points

    Ok…This time only decanted 15 minutes and then poured back in the bottle because air killed my last bottle. Poured 1/4 glasses before dinner. Wine starts out like it might be good then fades hard. Maybe 2012 wasn’t a good year for them? No idea. Wine is light/medium mouthfeel, not a lot of flavor layers and wine structure is not full. There is a tartness and acidic finish which is not long. At the price point of the wine it is a no go. Drank over 90 minutes and can’t say it really improved much. It is average but for the price a terrible QPR. Ido like WA State BDX blends but still haven’t found a Cab I love. I see current release prices for this wine is $160?? There is no possible way this wine is worth this price. It’s your money so spend it as you want.

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    12/31/2021 - Likes this wine: 95 Points

    Excellent with rib roast. Black cherry, boysenberry, baking spices

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    10/10/2021 - wrote:

    flagship bottling i believe. Dark plum on the nose. Palate shows dark fruit, hint of earth, with medium acidity. Actually a pleasant persistent finish.

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    10/9/2021 - wrote: 89 Points

    Wanted to try a WA Cab because I never had one to see how it compared to Napa and Bordeaux. Based on this one bottle fairly or not my WA Cab experiment is over. Decanted two hours. Dark black color. Original taste was..oK this is decent. Drank over the next 90 minutes with leg of lamb and the more air it got the worse it was. Very one dimensional. Cab flavor is fine, tannins soft but a Napa or Bordeaux contender? What a joke. 2018 offering is $160 a bottle ? You’ll get burned like never before buying this. Napa & Bordeaux…You have no threat at all from DeLille. QPR is terrible. Maybe at $50 it would still bean average QPR.

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  • By Stephen Tanzer
    Washington Turns Up the Heat (Nov 2015), 11/1/2015, (See more on Vinous...)

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  • By Paul Zitarelli
    Full Pull Anniversary Week 4 of 5: DeLille Debuts, 10/6/2017, (See more on Full Pull...)

    (DeLille Cellars Grand Ciel Cabernet Sauvignon) Hello friends, and thanks for joining us as Anniversary Week continues! Full Pull launched about eight years ago, on October 5, 2009, and we use the occasion of our anniversary week to blast out some of our most compelling offers of the year. This is the fourth of our quintet of Anniversary Week offers. It may be Anniversary Week for us, but it’s Anniversary Year for DeLille Cellars. The winery – important to Washington wine history in general and the Woodinville scene in particular – is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Seems like the perfect occasion for Full Pull’s inaugural DeLille offer. To give you a sense of the scene when Charles Lil, Greg Lil, Jay Soloff, and Chris Upchurch launched DeLille in 1992, at that point there were exactly four wineries in Woodinville. Two are still around today (Ste Michelle and Columbia), and two are gone (French Creek and Facelli). So DeLille is the third-oldest winery still operating in Woodinville, and they essentially pioneered the boutique winery movement in the area. They were also among the first to make and promote Bordeaux blends, and among the first to consider items in the vineyard like row orientation (previously many of the vineyards were oriented to match the surrounding roads), spacing, and clonal selection. Pioneers to be sure, and 25 years in, the wines are better than ever:DeLille planted Grand Ciel in 2001 in partnership with Jim Holmes of Ciel du Cheval Vineyard. To the best of my knowledge, they don’t sell any of the fruit from the site; it is a DeLille monopole, and this vintage is 100% Grand Ciel, 100% Cabernet Sauvignon; a chance to experience a Red Mountain site we’ve never previously offered, and from arguably the finest vintage of the century so far in Washington. Wine Advocate: Copyrighted material withheld.

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