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2016 Tempus Cellars Red Wine

Red Blend

  • USA
  • Washington
  • Columbia Valley
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Full Pull

  • By Paul Zitarelli
    Full Pull Tempus, 5/15/2019

    (Tempus Cellars Red Blend) Hello friends. Tempus Cellars is one of those wineries that still flies a bit under the radar—and that’s just fine by us. Under the radar is a greenlight for value-hunters; it means we can still get our hands on the wines we love. Year after year, Joe Forest crafts beautiful, well-priced wines. Our list members know how lovely and expressive Joe’s wines are, so much so that the wines are snapped up en masse every time we offer them. It’s become a tradition of sorts: we taste the Tempus lineup and struggle immensely to settle on just one wine. Offering just one wine doesn’t feel fair—so, today we’ll offer a trio. This roundup is a fine display of Joe’s skill across different years and different grapes: I’m dusting off our no-black-swans theory for this wine. It goes like this: we’ve come to believe, over a decade of Full Pull, that there are no black swans. No inexplicably excellent wines. Every excellent wine is excellent for a reason. Better yet, a number of reasons. Or better still, a number of perils avoided. Winemaking is a Houdini escape act, with danger around every corner, and when someone pulls it off successfully, you can only give them the slow clap they deserve. How this applies to my tasting for Full Pull: when we taste a wine that seems inexplicably outstanding, the job becomes clear. Research until we can understand why the wine is as good as it is. Here, with Joe’s red blend, the research was quick. This red blend—an innocuous sounding category if there ever was one—is basically a secret Sagemoor BDX blend for a tag in the $20s. (For comparison, Tamarack Reserve, which is a beautiful wine, is a similar blend from Sagemoor and goes for roughly $50.) The wine is sourced from Sagemoor sites, and it includes some serious old-vine material. 60% is Cabernet, sourced from Bacchus and Dionysus. The remaining 40% is equal parts Bacchus Merlot and Weinbau Cab Franc. It was all aged for almost two years in French oak before bottling and clocks in at 14.7% listed alcohol. It’s wonderfully moody Bordeaux on the nose: dark fruit, fennel fronds, minerals, and touches of wood. The palate is where this wine shines the strongest. It’s vibrant with acidity; intriguing with notes of herbaceous greens and rocks. There’s tons of lift here, but also wonderful texture and lessy, shortbready intricacies. A standout bottling that could easily go for double the tariff.

Wine Definition

  • Vintage 2016
  • Type Red
  • Producer Tempus Cellars
  • Varietal Red Blend
  • Designation Red Wine
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country USA
  • Region Washington
  • SubRegion Columbia Valley
  • Appellation Columbia Valley

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  • In Cellars 41 (19%)
  • Consumed 179 (81%)

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