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DeLille Cellars 2009 Chaleur Estate Blanc White (Columbia Valley (WA))
- Editors' Choice
- $36
Consistent year after year, this blend of 67% Sauvignon Blanc and 33% Sémillon is modeled after top-flight white Bordeaux. Deep gold, toasty and scented with olive oil, walnuts and loam, it hits the palate full-on with a rainbow of flavors: citrus, stone and tropical fruits, all accented with toast, oil and nuts from barrel aging. Riveting, delicious and unique.
— P.G.
(7/1/2011)
DeLille Cellars 2005 Chaleur Estate Red Wine (Red Mountain)
- Editors' Choice
- $72
Chaleur Estate is DeLille’s finest red wine; this vintage is more refined, elegant and precise than ever before. The 2005 is 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Merlot, 9% Cabernet Franc and 1% Petit Verdot; it’s especially ripe and expressive. Lovely details of ripe cherry, plum and cassis fruit are dappled with intriguing grace notes of sweet grass, fresh herb and…
— P.G.
(11/1/2008)
DeLille Cellars 2005 Chaleur Estate Blanc White (Columbia Valley (WA))
- $33
A rich, golden, toasty, hedonistic wine. Ripe and loaded with gorgeous fruit: sweet citrus, pineapple, grapefruit, peach and stone fruit. As it moves through the palate it’s laced with smoke and toast, while the fruit core expands into marmalade and tupelo honey, and the wine grows unctuous and creamy. Doesn’t taste like a young wine, but it certainly will continue…
— P.G.
(3/1/2007)
DeLille Cellars 2008 Chaleur Estate Blanc White (Columbia Valley (WA))
- $34
DeLille’s take on a first-growth Bordeaux Blanc really shines in this excellent vintage. Toasty and firm, it captures the lushness of the Sémillon fruit while mixing in bright citrus. The barrel aging adds warm brioche, toasted almond and caramel. There is just a tiny suggestion of honey in the finish, a rush of tropical fruits.
— P.G.
(8/1/2010)
DeLille Cellars 2004 Grand Ciel Cabernet Sauvignon (Red Mountain)
- $125
This has a broad impact on the palate, spreading across the tongue with full flavors of berry and plum, cherry and hints of smoke. It’s 100% Cabernet Sauvignon, pure and concentrated.. As the wine opens in the glass its flavors become more dense, offering cherry compote, bourbon barrel and crème brûlée, annotated with black olive and bouquet garni.
— P.G.
(5/1/2008)
DeLille Cellars 2004 Chaleur Estate Red (Yakima Valley)
- $70
This is a similar blend to DeLille’s Harrison Hill bottling, but these grapes are largely from Red Mountain. Chaleur Estate is a very site-specific wine, and it has a strong component of mineral, granite or pencil lead. Dense, well-articulated flavors of very tart, precise red fruits, blue fruits, black fruits almost overwhelms; this is a wine to savor and one that…
— P.G.
(3/1/2007)
DeLille Cellars 2003 Harrison Hill Red (Yakima Valley)
- $68
Apart from Columbia’s Otis Cab, this is Yakima’s (and Washington’s) oldest Cabernet vineyard. Newer plantings of Merlot and Cab Franc enhance the blend. The wine is marked by its finesse and exceptional grace. Silky and sensuous, it’s a wine that warrants the old-fashioned term “breed”—suggesting manapricot-scented lemon and lime flavors are tinged with peaches…
— P.G.
(8/1/2006)
DeLille Cellars 1997 Chaleur Estate Red (Yakima Valley)
- $40
The winery set out some years back to make a Washington equivalent of classified Bordeaux, and no one has come closer. Winemaker Chris Upchurch captures the lead pencil/cigarbox nuances of Pauillac, and uses the deep, dark, slightly bitter black-cherry fruit to full advantage. A blend of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Cabernet Franc, this may well be the best wine…
— W.E.
(6/1/2000)
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