TN: 2002 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon (USA, Washington)

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  • 2002 Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon - USA, Washington (9/24/2009)
    Dark opaque purple. Brooding, dark fruit with a hint of spice and a little alcoholic heat on the nose. Eventually it developed a little bit of a mineral/graphite note on the nose. Initially (for the first hour or so) this was Blueberries, Blueberries, Blueberries on the palate. As time went by, it developed a bit, to include a bit of cherry, tar and licorice.

I can’t say it’s a bad wine, but really didn’t make me too happy – even considering it’s a cab and not burgundy/champagne/nebbiolo/rhone. Just not really interesting or particularly yummy. I keep trying to like these new world wines from my wine drinking “youth,” but, more and more, I can only say “why bother.” YMMV(?)

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Hmmmm…

I might be having this out of magnum on Saturday.

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Hope you enjoy more than I did. I think that I’ve really turned a corner on the whole euro/new world divide in the last 6-8 months. For a long time, I preferred good ol’ 'Mericun wines. As time went by, I started to appreciate the euro-weenie wines a little, but still liked my homegrown stuff. Eventually, I began liking the french-surrender-monkey ones best (Itai’s too, hell, how can you not like Italian anything?), but still liked our home grown stuff pretty well. In the last 6-8 months – mostly just don’t enjoy USA wine. [cry.gif] It’s all tragically hip, traditionally made euro-weenie wines for me, lately.

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I’m hip…as I sit here and finish a bottle of 2003 Monbousquet.

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Bill,

It’s going to be REALLY tough out of Mag. If you open it you better do it 24 hours in advance but I really don’t think that’s going to help.

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I’m hip. Unfortunaly it will be travelling and at best will only get about six or eight hours of air. I am thinking some vigorous abuse in a captain’s decanter will be in order…or the FreakMount blender treatment.

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I think this is the wine that tasted like motor oil to me and had to spit out at a poker game.

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Looks like I don’t have to worry about it after all. The wine won’t be making the trip.

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I have to admit, I had this about 1 1/2 years ago, maybe 2. I opened around 4 pm, tasted and thought, crap don’t like this at all. I was committed though. Threw in a decanter for about 1 hour, then decanted back to bottle. Drank around 9 pm and a complete transformation.

Granted it is still a large scaled wine but with some air, it was very good.

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Do tell…

Sorry for the thread drift

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Paul - not Bill, obviously, but I had the 03 Monbousquet out of a 375 over the weekend.

Nice wine but didn’t scream bordeaux to me. Tex may like it better than me, but I wasn’t wowed by it.

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It is my “house wine” since I was able to get a screaming good deal on it in the spring in OWC. As everyone knows, quite a bit of oak, but enough fruit to balance it out. Some of the bottles have a wee green streak in them that can be off putting. This bottle didn’t have any such streak. Like I was telling Levine last night, I don’t think the '03 has the stuffing to last more than ten years. Right now, with a couple hours of air on it, it is such a good bottle to pop mid week.

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I don’t think it screams BDX either…but then the '03 Pavie doesn’t either.

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Thanks, gents. I may have to pop one tomorrow.

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Buck up Greg! And you’re from Texas too!!!

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Had the 05 recently and after 2 days of rest in the fridge, it was an absolutely smoking good wine.