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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