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Quilceda Creek Cabernet Sauvignon

Tracked vintages
44
Community notes
2,624
Merchant offers
349

What we know about this wine

Critics
97/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers
94/ 1002,624 notes, every vintage
Market price
£164per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
Drinking window
2025–2042drinking2020 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.

Structure from 194 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Washington State Cabernet Sauvignon.

Body4.0 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.9 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.9 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5
DrySweet
  • Oak · oak, chocolate, tobacco, vanilla, cedar
  • Black fruit · blackberry, cassis, plum, dark fruit, blueberry
  • Earth · leather, graphite, earthy, smoke, cocoa
  • Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, eucalyptus, menthol
  • Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, maraschino cherry
  • Floral · violet, lavender, rose petal, perfume, lilac

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£108–£164Shop asks£151–£188GBP per 75 cl · 11 priced vintages

2004One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

Vintages

Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2021
100 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2019
peak, window 2021–2041
Lowest price
2015
£108 per 75 cl

Price by vintage

One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.

Cabernet Sauvignon monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£50£100£1502021£1642020£1502019£1422018£1502016£1332015£1082014£1252012£1512008£1442007£1882004£151

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Cabernet Sauvignon monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 10 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Cabernet Sauvignon monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2021£164100—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2020£15096.7Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2024
2019£14298.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
2018£15098Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2016£13397Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
2015£10897Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2014£12596Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2012£15196.5Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2008£14496.5Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
2007£18895Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2004£15196.5Yesper 75cl, from a 1500 ml shop ask, September 2026

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