Quilceda Creek, Horse Heaven Hills, Palengat Red Wine 2011 TAR-ROSES Incredible inner-mouth mineral and berry

Incredible inner-mouth mineral and berry flavors

and more brine flavors

Supremely elegant

an unctuous texture

coming from a cooler vintage in Napa Valley

Quilceda Creek, Horse Heaven Hills, Palengat Red Wine 2011 TAR-ROSES Incredible inner-mouth mineral and berry95 points Wine Advocate A blend of 61% Merlot, 26% Cabernet Sauvignon, 9% Cabernet Franc and the balance Petit Verdot, the 2011 Palengat Vineyard has a great bouquet of sweet plum liqueur, blackberry, graphite, lead pencil shavings and toast. This is followed by a full bodied effort that has beautiful concentration (especially in the vintage), loads of texture and ripe underlying tannic structure. Reasonably approachable now, it will nevertheless