Domaine Tempier, Pour Lulu, Bandol

Far too early, even with a 4 hour decant. This needs 5 years, maybe 10. Opening up towards the end of dinner, luscious black fruits, a touch stewed but not sweet, infact a savoury, balanced and complex wine. Just needs time to show its best stuff.

2017 vintage

Not sure why i opened this should have read my previous note. Wine is shut down

2017 vintage

Sur les prunes, mures et violettes. Des épices et des herbes avec une belle finale douce et persistante. Super bon.

2017 vintage

So good. Very nicely balanced and approachable. Black plums, blackberries and cherries, spice, nicely integrated tannins - a very complete wine with much Provençal charm that can be enjoyed now or cellared for another 10 to 20 years.

2017 vintage

A deep ruby beauty, why didn’t I stock my cellar with only Domaine Tempier. What a deliciousness, ripe cherry, black fruit, liquorice, sweet spice all elegantly wrapped in medium acidity and mega-enjoyable tannins. Focused and captivating finish leaving you with a desire for the next sip. More hedonistic than the single vineyard siblings, which are broodingly intriguing. 93+.

2017 vintage

shut down at the moment...

2017 vintage

From magnum. Showing great - silky and juicy fruit, deep dark plum color and all kindsa balanced fruit and earth emerging. Very fresh and clean. Nice.

2017 vintage

- Garnet color - Ik proef al rozijnen en krentjes

2017 vintage

Rarement déçu par tempier. Tres bandol et sudistes, tout en ne tombant pas dans l’excès. La prochaine dans 5 ans

2017 vintage

No detailed notes. Drank to accompany a meal I prepared entirely from "Lulu's Provencal Table" using vegetables from our garden. All in all the wine accompanied the food gloriously.

2017 vintage

Bright fruit, good acid. Not big or jammy. Works well with a pasta or lighter meat, like fish.

2017 vintage

Corked

2017 vintage

Amazing. Lives up to every single bit of hype.

2017 vintage

Medium dark ruby. Powerful aroma of dark cherries, black plums, chocolate, tea, earth, forest floor, roses, a hint of vanillin oak. Dark and red fruit on the palate, pomegranate and raspberry, medium plus acids, medium fine grained tannins, medium alcohol, very long finish. Well constructed, complex, balanced.

2017 vintage

We bought this wine in 2022 at a visit to Domaine Tempier so it was hard to open - wanted to hold onto the treasure lol! Amazing wine - decanted for several hours but stole a sip immediately upon opening as well. Incredible acidity, minerality and silky tannins. So many layered notes over the course of the evening.

2017 vintage

Phenomenal with Prime Rib Roast. 3hr decant and wine really benefitted from this. beautiful dark fruit, plum and mineral finish. 2017 was a very good year, last bottle sadly, on to the 2018s!!

2017 vintage

Short decant The wine is clear and dark purple in colour There is very small amount of sediment in the bottle. On the nose: Fresh red fruit, raspberry, tart cherry, candied apple, fruit forward, slight alcohol - hot On the palate: Raspberry, cherry, caramelised sugar, later, some pencil shavings, smoke The body is medium, full. The wine has a crisp texture. The wine finishes V-long. The wine has medium acidity. The wine has medium tannins. Conclusion Just about in its …

2017 vintage

Deep ruby. Black fruit, earth, and anise. Medium to full bodied. Tight, tannic, still too young to fully appreciate.

2017 vintage

No detailed notes. Decanted about 1 hour. Virtually opaque purple-garnet color. Classic nose of tar, garrique, and intense plummy fruit. Much more elegant on the palate than anticipated with ample but not overripe fruit, soft tannins, and good acidity. There was no sense of heat from the alcohol. All in a a lovely Bandol.

2017 vintage

Opened and decanted an hour ahead of grilled BBQ pork cutlets and mixed salad. Brooding, dark purple-crimson color. The nose brings a heavy load of forest floor, musty funk, and garrigue with scattered red fruit and purple flower notes. The palate is medium-full, square, supple, and textured, bringing a lovely core of deep blueberries, tart huckleberries, chocolate cherries, and juicy plums mixed with wood smoke, tar, pipe tobacco, and dried leather. The finish is refined and smooth. This is the …

2017 vintage

Young but drinking nicely. Classic Tempier style. A bit of funk on finish but overall pretty clean and nice. Good with roast meat. Give it 1 hr at least

2017 vintage

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2017 vintage

Tasted at le Willi’s Wine Bar. I’m not sure how long this bottle has been open, but long enough. Generous mourvedre fruit on the bose: blackberry, boysenberry, plum, but balanced by the gravely structure. Obviously the tannins ate prominent, but with the air this wine is already delicious.

2017 vintage

Needed three hours of decant to blossom. Very elegant but powerful at the same time. The extraction is masterfully balanced. Mourvedre fruit with some smoke and underwood. Very long finish. Slight tertiary notes coming through but mainly fruity. Good to drink now but will for sure improve over the next decade. Mext bottle in five years.

2017 vintage

Tempier has more bottle variation than any other producer I love. This was another wrong-headed one, and the flaw was a new one to me. First few sips were good and complex, but the finish was increasingly sour, then bitter, and an hour later, the wine tasted kind of cooked - which is bizarre, as I bought it on release. But not 100% like being cooked - also shrill. I dunno - weird one.

2017 vintage

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