2016 Domaine Tempier Bandol La Tourtine

Community Tasting Notes (13) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  3/16/2024 - cfk49 wrote: 93 Points

  With a three-hour decant, substantially improved over last summer's bottle. Classic musky Mourvèdre aromas and flavors, smooth tannins, medium-full body, surprising elegance. This wine will still improve over many years. Cellared since original release.

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  1/20/2024 - poppacork Likes this wine: 93 Points

  A great bottle full of slightly lifted dark fruits, briny black olives, and capers with subtle accents of game and dried herbs on a medium body with a lingering finish.

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  9/3/2023 - dlduchon wrote: flawed

  Secondary bottle fermentation. Daniel Ravier, what happened?

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  7/18/2023 - JensAgo Likes this wine: 94 Points

  First encounter w this wonderfully rich, characterful Bandol & Mourvèdre-dominated red blend (M:80, G:10, C:10). Reminiscent of my encounter w Californian Andremily, I v much enjoyed Tempier’s Tourtine f first pour. Dark & dense purple-garnet in the glass. Gorgeously complex nose w notes of blackberries, cassis, garrigue, smoke & smoky herbs, barrel spice. Super-intensive palate, balanced, full-bodied, natural-feeling acidity, lots of grip, red fruit-driven as opposed to nose, pimento spiciness, knock-out finish!

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  9/6/2022 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 Points

  A private dinner (Restaurant De Lage Vuursche, Lage Vuursche, NL): A bemusing experience. In itself a perfectly acceptable wine, but completely different from what I was expecting. There appears to be a hint of unresolved carbon dioxide in the wine, which gives a litte prickle that does not dissipate completely in the decanter. The wine is very fresh and youthful, with flowers and creamy red cherries and berries, but with little tannic structure to speak of. The alcoholic weight (15% ABV) would suggest a powerhouse of a wine, but the character is the opposite. It feels like a young (2019 or 2020) natural Pinot Noir from Burgundy or the Jura. Two bottles with identical notes, pleasant in themselves, but was this what the vigneron intended, or were both bottles suffering from the same fault? Completely fresh and intact on the second day. A puzzle.

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