2005 | DeLille Cellars | Chaleur Estate

Description

Red Wine: 2005 | DeLille Cellars | Chaleur Estate

Smooth, round and harmonious, offering an elegant mouthful of creamy, spice-accented black cherry, black currant and plum flavors, nicely fashioned to breeze through a veil of fine tannins on the beautifully focused finish.

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Producer: DeLille Cellars

Ratings: WA | 93WE | 94

Vintage: 2005

Size: 750ml

ABV: 14.9%

Varietal: Red Blends

Country/Region: United States, Washington

Smooth, round and harmonious, offering an elegant mouthful of creamy, spice-accented black cherry, black currant and plum flavors, nicely fashioned to breeze through a veil of fine tannins on the beautifully focused finish.

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The only vintage to include Cabernet Sauvignon from the Grand Ciel vineyard on Red Mountain, the 2005 Chaleur Estate is a structured, firm, straight and age-worthy Bordeaux blend from this estate that offers lots of black fruits, lead pencil shavings, chocolate and toasted bread aromas and flavors. Medium to full-bodied, with good richness and chewy tannin, it will have 20-25 years of overall longevity.

• Wine Enthusiast: 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 cracker. This wine has grace and length, and the finish combines earth, herb, rock and light hints of toast.

Producer Information

DeLille Cellars is a prestigious Washington State wine producer, founded in 1992. With a focus on the Red Mountain AVA and other top sites in the Columbia Valley, it has been a leading player in establishing the viticultural credentials of the state. DeLille Cellars is also one of the first wineries in Washington to predominantly focus on producing both red and wines from Bordeaux varieties. DeLille was one of the first five wineries in the state to gain a 5-star rating for excellence from Robert Parker’s The Wine Advocate. In recent years it has appeared four times in the annual Wines and Spirits Magazine Top 100 Wineries of the World list.
Grape are sourced from multiple estate and contracted vineyards spanning the Yakima Valley and Red Mountain AVAs: Harrison Hill, Grand Ciel, Klipsun, Boushey, Ciel du Cheval, Red Willow, Upchurch and Stillwater Creek. DeLille Cellars has held the rights to Harrison Hill vineyard since 1994, which is today part of the Snipes Mountain AVA. Snipes Mountain is known for its unique topography, high elevations and soils that differentiate it from the rest of the Yakima Valley AVA. The Harrison Hill vineyard was first planted to Cabernet Sauvignon in 1962 and features the second oldest Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the state of Washington.