I’ve been tasting newly-released Tempiers for each of the past forty years, and I can’t recall wines quite like the 2106 reds.These wines are more tannic and backward than I can recall for young Tempier. The wines were always drinkable young, even if they had plenty of potential for improvement, but this vintage really is for the future, especially the special cuvée wines.
Notably, the estate is now using large ovals made by the excellent Stockinger firm in Austria. For southern French wines, I have found no cooperage that comes anywhere close to Stockinger.
Tempier is now biodynamic. (Continue reading here.)