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• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Washington Reoffers (+Shipping UPDATE), 3/7/2019

  (Temporal Vintners Tempranillo) Shipping UPDATE: While it may beggar belief with our current national deep freeze, we do expect spring to arrive at some point soon, and with it our spring shipping window. Over the next few weeks, as different areas of the country reach appropriate temperatures, we’ll begin sending out shipments. In advance of that, here are reminders for our shipping list members: 1. During our open shipping window, *we ship wine as it is confirmed (in 12-bottle increments)* as long as those shipments do not lead to delivery-date conflicts with dates blocked off in the Shipping Calendar tab of your online account. 2. Please check your shipping address. Please make sure the shipping address in your Full Pull account is correct, and it’s an address where an adult will be present to sign for your packages. 3. Please update your shipping calendar. The Shipping Calendar tab is part of your online account. Within that tab, you can block off any dates where you *do not* wish to receive shipments. ---- Hello friends. We’re back to our roots today with a quintet of Washington reoffers: It’s been about two months since the new vintage of Temp was released, and in that time two notable things have happened. First, the Temp snagged a 90pt review from Owen Bargreen (below); second, we’ve sold through roughly two-thirds of our stash—which was meant to last us all year. There’s a good chance that this will be the last time we’re able to offer this wine. International Wine Report (Owen Bargreen): “Sourced from the Dineen Vineyard,  this was aged for 21 months in French oak prior to bottling. The nose yields some nice toasty oak with red and dark fruits that impress with a touch of citrus rind. The palate shows good smoothness and richness with red cherry, roasted date and blood orange flavors. I really love the long finish here. Drink 2019-2025- 90pts.” This wine is 100% Dineen Vineyard Tempranillo from winemaker Javier Alfonso’s Tinta del Pais (Ribera del Duero) clone. This planting runs about an acre and was planted exclusively for Javier’s use. The juice was raised in a mix of neutral and twice-filled barrels. It clocks in at 13.9% alc and kicks off with an expressive nose: a core of black cherry fruit and tobacco leaf elevated by subtleties of star anise and a beefy note evocative of roasting marrow bones. In the mouth, this is more like the inaugural 2014 vintage than the ‘15 stylistically, offering terrific balance across multiple axes: fruit and earth, richness and structure. From the beginning, we’ve loved the toothsome edge of the Ribera clone material, the way it provides a wonderful chewy finish, leafy and savory through and through. Tempranillo like this is wine for braising weather: for days indoors slow-cooking a tough piece of protein into something supple and delicious. Pot roasts and short ribs and oxtails. Big messes of root veggies and potatoes.

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Temporal, 1/10/2019

  (Temporal Vintners Tempranillo) Hello friends. Three years ago, we launched Full Pull’s first “pop-up wine.” Inspired by the idea of pop-up restaurants—ephemeral spaces that can be experimental and decidedly worthwhile—we took a chance on a stunner of a bottle sourced fully from Dineen Vineyard and made by one of our long-time favorite winemakers. In the beginning, this was the dark-horse candidate of our private label offerings—a wine that we knew we wanted to sell but whose reception we weren’t exactly sure of. $15 dollar Washington Tempranillo is a rarity around these parts; we didn’t have a lot of data to analyze. So, we decided to offer said wine for one vintage, with the option to extend if all went well. Lucky for us all, it proved equally successful with list members and critics alike. (Even gaining a 93pt review from Wine Advocate.) Today, we’re back for year number three. It’s been about two months since the new vintage of Temp was released, and in that time two notable things have happened. First, the Temp snagged a 90pt review from Owen Bargreen (below); second, we’ve sold through roughly two-thirds of our stash—which was meant to last us all year. There’s a good chance that this will be the last time we’re able to offer this wine. International Wine Report (Owen Bargreen): “Sourced from the Dineen Vineyard,  this was aged for 21 months in French oak prior to bottling. The nose yields some nice toasty oak with red and dark fruits that impress with a touch of citrus rind. The palate shows good smoothness and richness with red cherry, roasted date and blood orange flavors. I really love the long finish here. Drink 2019-2025- 90pts.” This wine is 100% Dineen Vineyard Tempranillo from winemaker Javier Alfonso’s Tinta del Pais (Ribera del Duero) clone. This planting runs about an acre and was planted exclusively for Javier’s use. The juice was raised in a mix of neutral and twice-filled barrels. It clocks in at 13.9% alc and kicks off with an expressive nose: a core of black cherry fruit and tobacco leaf elevated by subtleties of star anise and a beefy note evocative of roasting marrow bones. In the mouth, this is more like the inaugural 2014 vintage than the ‘15 stylistically, offering terrific balance across multiple axes: fruit and earth, richness and structure. From the beginning, we’ve loved the toothsome edge of the Ribera clone material, the way it provides a wonderful chewy finish, leafy and savory through and through. Tempranillo like this is wine for braising weather: for days indoors slow-cooking a tough piece of protein into something supple and delicious. Pot roasts and short ribs and oxtails. Big messes of root veggies and potatoes.