Vinous

• By Stephen Tanzer
  Focus on Washington: The New Normal (Nov 2018), 11/1/2018 (link)

  (K Vintners Tempranillo El Jefe Stoneridge Vineyard Washington Red) Subscribe to see review text.

JebDunnuck.com

• By Jeb Dunnuck
  Latest Releases from Washington State, 4/5/2018 (link)

  (K Vintners Tempranillo El Jefe Stoneridge Vineyard) Subscribe to see review text.

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull The Kitty Jefe Creator, 5/9/2018

  (K Vintners Tempranillo El Jefe) Hello friends. We have small parcels of a trio of rarities from the recent set of K Vintners releases. These offers are notorious for turning into feeding frenzies, and this one – our first of the year – promises to be extra cuckoo given the wines involved and the parcel sizes. So let me first offer two quick notes: 1. To the best of my knowledge, we have retail dibs on all three of these wines west of the mountains. 2. I suspect we’ll have to under-allocate here, given the parcel sizes, so a quick reminder of our allocation technique: Our allocations generally favor breadth over depth, so that everyone gets one bottle before anyone gets two. And our formula for prioritizing allocations includes overall orders, frequency of orders, recency of orders, list tenure, and size of order request, among other factors. Now, onto the wines:Jeb Dunnuck: Copyrighted material withheld. A real rarity for us. How rare? We’ve offered exactly one previous vintage of El Jefe, and that was the 2008 vintage back in August 2010, when Full Pull was less than a year old. This vintage comes entirely from Stoneridge on the Royal Slope (source of Royal City Syrah), a site with thin topsoil over a basalt/caliche foundation. It spent 35 days on skins, followed by 21 months in 50% new barriques. Listed alc is 14.5%, and Charles’ notes follow: Bullfight in the sand. This very earthbound wine is all that. Rich, meaty, dark cherry, jerky, tumbled river rock. The warmth of a fading sun. This wine may speak Spanish, but it is pure Washington.