2010 Upland Estates Malbec

Full Pull

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Eliminator 18, 4/24/2019

  (Upland Estates Malbec) Hello friends. The Eliminator is back! v18.0 contains a set of nine wines, and they run the gamut in price, origin, and style. Based on the name of the final American Gladiators challenge (see link for an excellent example of the original Eliminator, and also for an epic blond ‘80s mullet), this is where we eliminate extra bottles that have accumulated for one reason or another (some reasons purposeful; others accidental/stupid/I-don’t-wanna-talk-about-it). A reminder: we handle this offer a little differently than most. These will be first-come first-served, and the upper order limits will be the number of extra bottles in the warehouse. So, if we have 15 bottles left, and you want all 15, and you’re the first to jump in, they’re yours. This gives slight advantage to longer-term list members. Our offers are throttled, and it takes about an hour to send offers to the entire list. So the old-heads get a bit of a head-start (much like the Gladiators Eliminator, but with fewer tassels), but list newbies will be nipping at their heels! Please note: we’re going to update inventory throughout the day via a linked PDF. Hopefully that will avoid the frustration of ordering an already-sold-out item. And with that, let’s begin. 61 bottles to start the day (see updated availability here) of this Snipes Mountain Malbec that began life at a $30 price point and is drinking beautifully at mid-peak right now. International Wine Report (Owen Bargreen): “Needing roughly a one hour decant to come into its own, the wine starts off with a lovely bouquet of dark fruit with more obvious milk chocolate tones. Exceedingly smooth through the mid-palate, the wine reveals black cherry, cigar ash and black olive tapenade flavors with a touch of exotic spice. This is drinking pretty nicely with this degree of bottle age. Drink 2018-2022. 90pts”

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

  (Upland Estates Malbec) 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: 61 bottles to start the day (see updated availability here) of this Snipes Mountain Malbec that began life at a $30 price point and is drinking beautifully at mid-peak right now. International Wine Report (Owen Bargreen): “Needing roughly a one hour decant to come into its own, the wine starts off with a lovely bouquet of dark fruit with more obvious milk chocolate tones. Exceedingly smooth through the mid-palate, the wine reveals black cherry, cigar ash and black olive tapenade flavors with a touch of exotic spice. This is drinking pretty nicely with this degree of bottle age. Drink 2018-2022. 90pts”

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Reoffers, 5/30/2018

  (Upland Estates Malbec) Hello friends. We have a trio of reoffers today on wines that have proven popular reorder targets since landing in our list members’ kitchens: 61 bottles to start the day (see updated availability here) of this Snipes Mountain Malbec that began life at a $30 price point and is drinking beautifully at mid-peak right now. International Wine Report (Owen Bargreen): “Needing roughly a one hour decant to come into its own, the wine starts off with a lovely bouquet of dark fruit with more obvious milk chocolate tones. Exceedingly smooth through the mid-palate, the wine reveals black cherry, cigar ash and black olive tapenade flavors with a touch of exotic spice. This is drinking pretty nicely with this degree of bottle age. Drink 2018-2022. 90pts”

• By Paul Zitarelli
  Full Pull Upland (+Warehouse Sale REMINDER), 3/12/2018

  (Upland Estates Malbec) Warehouse Sale REMINDER: Reminder that Warehouse Bin-Ends Sale III is taking place on Thursday March 15. We’ll have out and available for sale any bottles where our excess is in the 1-3 bottle range, along with a handful of cherries and cult wines (I’m particularly excited about one Northern Rhone unicorn). And we’ll be pouring a different lineup than usual, too, again drawn from wines where we have an excess stash. If the timing works out right (fingers crossed), we will also debut the new (disgorged-last-week, to be offered in April) Full Pull & Friends Blanc de Blancs Brut Nature, a perennial list favorite. It should be a busy scene, so if you intend to pick up your wines that day, please do make a pickup appointment. If you just want to come in and browse, no appointment is necessary. ---- Hello friends. Life can usually be whittled down to the simple interaction of time and place. Too often, it’s the right time, wrong place—or the right place, wrong time. But sometimes, in the dreamiest of scenarios, we can find ourselves in the right place at the right time. Today’s offer is all about that sweet spot. The time: March 2010 to October 2011. The place: Upland Vineyard, Outlook, Washington, Snipes Mountain AVA. 61 bottles to start the day (see updated availability here) of this Snipes Mountain Malbec that began life at a $30 price point and is drinking beautifully at mid-peak right now. International Wine Report (Owen Bargreen): “Needing roughly a one hour decant to come into its own, the wine starts off with a lovely bouquet of dark fruit with more obvious milk chocolate tones. Exceedingly smooth through the mid-palate, the wine reveals black cherry, cigar ash and black olive tapenade flavors with a touch of exotic spice. This is drinking pretty nicely with this degree of bottle age. Drink 2018-2022. 90pts”