Planting years on both reviews and drinking windows. Ribbon Ridge does not have a ton of producers. Alcohol% % Im 90% on this.
Redacted 134 appears to be WT Vintners Les Collines Syrah. Score of 95 and 13.9 ABV, pricing close, vineyard description in Blue Mountains just north of state line on Washington side of Walla Walla Valley. 2019 Les Collines Vineyard Syrah || W.T. Vintners
I’ve bought several WT wines as Redacted from Full Pull including the 2017 version of this one. I haven’t drank many, but they are solid wines.
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Anyone have a theory on Full Pull Redacted 135?
Hello friends. Today we have the 135th wine in our Redacted series, where in exchange for redacting the winery name, we’re able to offer the wine at a considerable discount. Number one-thirty-five is going to be a popular one, methinks. It’s the first Cabernet Sauvignon from this particular AVA to appear in the Redacted Series, and it’s our least expensive Redacted Cab since all the way back to March 2020 (Redacted 10).
Redacted 135: 2021 Cabernet Sauvignon Horse Heaven Hills - $31.99 (FPP $11.99)
First important note: like all the wines in our Redacted series, this one will come with the original winery label intact, so you will learn the producer and the exact wine the moment you pick up the wine or receive your shipment. Now, some notes and clues about this wine:
This is actually a single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon (100% Cab) from a terrific site in the Horse Heaven Hills.
It isn’t Champoux Vineyard.
It isn’t Discovery either.
There’s a solid recent review for this wine from one of our regulars. He rated it 91pts, calling out the “great site in the Horse Heaven Hills” and noting the “ripe dark fruits,” alongside notes of tobacco leaf and anise. His drinking window: 2025-2031—feels about right to me.
The winery is a longtime FP partner. They first appeared in an offer in 2010, and subsequently we’ve offered more than a dozen of their wines over the years.
They’ve appeared twice previously in the Redacted Series.
We’ve offered this wine exactly once in non-Redacted form—that was the 2015 vintage, back in 2019.
Listed alc is 13.5%.
This opens with a wonderful Horse Heaven Cab nose, with pencil-lead minerality and leafy subtleties of earl grey and violet and eucalyptus complicating a deep core of black fruit (blackberry, cassis). It’s a fairly prototypical H3 palate too, which means a four-corners Cab that gives equal billing to fruit and earth and herb and barrel; and foursquare tannins that appear nice and early to swaddle the delicious dark fruit. The whole package drinks like a beautifully balanced midweight, with notable purity for the tag, and with the feeling of an experienced hand working with familiar fruit.
Please limit order requests to 24 bottles, and we’ll do our best to fulfill all requests (maximum allocations could end up below a 12-bottle case if orders come in hot), with allocations coming Tuesday at 9am. The wine is in the warehouse and available for immediate post-allocation pickup, or for shipping during the next temperature-appropriate shipping window.
Regards,
Team Full Pull®
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Picked up a FP stash today, and as usual there are some real sleuths here on the Redacted Series:
#128: 2020 Reininger Malbec WWV.
#129: 2019 Fidelitas Cabernet Red Mountain.
#130: 2022 Brook and Bull Malbec CV
#134 2019 WT Vintners Syrah Les Collines Vineyard
#135: 2021 Reininger Helix Cabernet Phinny Hill
R136 appears to be 2018 Fidelitas Cabernet Sauvignon Quintessence.
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New Redacted offer today:
Redacted 137: 2023 Chardonnay Conner Lee Vineyard - $31.99 (FPP $14.99)
Seems pretty apparent to me that this one is the Brook & Bull Chard:
Starting with the list of Connor Lee Chard producers in CT, there aren’t really very many. And most of them don’t seem to be producers that Full Pull has been active with. Brook and Bull is the exception, as I know there have been FP offers (including Redacted) in the past (and, I think, they’ve offered wines from other labels made by Ashley Trout). In addition, the stated alcohol % (12.8%) and barrel aging (6 months w/ 10% new oak) in the linked PDF matches to the offer e-mail. Also, the list price ($32) matches with the B&B web site.
I didn’t bother to due any sleuthing on the review text listed in the FP e-mail. If someone wants to get additional data to support this conclusion, that would be the way to validate.
R138 is the City Limits The Citizen by Morgan Lee. Cab/Zin blend mostly from Stonetree.
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Thanks for this! And welcome to the forum. Guessing game is always fun for these. I have not tried this specific wine but have been impressed with other City Limits and know Stonetree Zin is as good as Zin gets in Washington.
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If you purchased the 23 Haut Garriga Bordeaux Blanc, I think you will be really happy with the purchase, had it last night and it punches way above the $12 price tag.
R139 is the Saviah Stones Speak Syrah. 95 pts from Owen Bargreen and 96 pts from Paul Gregutt. That’s a heckuva Syrah for $30!
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Any ideas on R140?
Well, today’s Redacted 141 wine (2023 Pinot Noir Willamette Valley @ $16.99) is definitely from Beckham Estate Vineyards. Here’s a link to the Jamie Goode article that includes the text quoted in the offer e-mail:
https://www.wineanorak.com/wineblog/oregon/in-oregon-beckham-estate-vineyard
I couldn’t verify exactly which of their wines this is, but my best guess is that it’s the “plain” Beckham Estate Vineyard Pinot Noir. I did find that the 2021 version of that wine received 93 points from WE (which matches the reference in the offer e-mail).
Don’t know anything about this producer. But, apparently, they are quite focused on use of amphora for fermentation and aging.
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I had the same findings. I did a tasting at Beckham Estate 2-3 years back. I don’t remember their basic estate wine. My general impression was that the amphora aged wines were different, pure, and it was very educational. Their main Pinot Noir, around $65 was very decent for the price but mainly it was really cool to taste two wines from same fruit with same fermentation, one aged in oak one in amphora. I also remember I found their blends and non-Pinot wines interesting, such as 50/50 blend of Pinot Noir/Gri.
I am requesting a few bottles from this offer.
Any thoughts on R142?
My best guess is Saviah 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon.
Walla Walla. Celebrating their 25th anniversary this year. Wine has 6% merlot.
The vineyard names don’t match up exactly but that may be just my lack of local knowledge.
If that is the wine, it’s not super exciting to me…
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This was the key I think. I wasn’t in Washington yet, but there could not have been more than a half dozen or so starting that year in W2 that are still around. Saviah has been a popular Redacted winery, with a couple of Syrahs showing up, maybe more, but I have those two Syrahs.
I think this is a very likely pick.
Just doing a quick search, it looks like there are a bunch of wineries founded in WA in 2000.
Saviah
Pepper bridge
Baer
Lake Chelan
Novelty Hill
Abeja
Paterson
Tsillan
Fidelitas
Five star cellars
This is just based on some AI search though. Couldn’t find much that lined up perfectly.
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SRP on the 2019 Saviah Cab WWV is around $35 though, instead of $56 in the offer. Not like I have a better idea, though.
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