2015 Realm Cellars The Tempest

Community Tasting Notes (54) Avg Score: 94.4 points

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  5/16/2024 - BondJamesBond007 wrote: 96 Points

  Deep purple color ripe plum blue fruit cocoa spice nose. Full bodied layered juicy scrumptious big fruit velvety tannins. For 2015 harvest this is still a fresh merlot. Vanilla sweet oak Chocolate blackberry blueberry.
  95% Merlot and 5% Cabernet Sauvignon

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  2/14/2024 - Wine Problems Likes this wine: 97 Points

  We decanted it for almost 2 hours, which it definitely needed. This is a big wine; definitely a “Cab drinker’s Merlot.” Dark in color, its nose had notes of rich black plum, red raspberry, boysenberry, rose petals, blue fruits, eucalyptus, a little earthiness, and a hint of milk chocolate. The palate was dark fruits, namely blackberry, black raspberry, and black cherry; also a touch of bittersweet chocolate. Overall it was very smooth, velvety, and elegant, with a long finish. Realm never disappoints. 97+

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  1/21/2024 - jjhsom Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Hard to find a CA Merlot this good. Concentrated. Fairly tannic on opening. Improved significantly getting air in the bottle for an hour. Lots of red fruit but some blue/black as well. Wish I had more of the 2015.

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  12/29/2023 - bqvino Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Drinking amazing right now - massive favorite at Christmas dinner

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  12/26/2023 - mick978@gmail.com Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Extremely jammy. Many, many years left.

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