This wine rocks. Looking in to the depths of a mouvedre pool of deep tones of black and purple ink. Nose smells so divine. My only other red Tempier (but not my only red Bandol) tasted has been a couple of bottles of the regular 2004 Domaine cuvee in the last year. The nose on this wine is similar but it has a wetter, meatier and more fungal nose. I can't believe this wine tastes so good, so young. Very pleased it shows so well right now. It has the same meaty and chewy taste as the regular but this bottle is quite a bit richer and bigger than the regular cuvee. And this I really admire about this wine: It's quite a bit more refined and balanced than the regular cuvee, but at the same time its bigger, bolder, meatier. Unlike the Graillot I opened to young recently, I don't mind drinking this extremely well built wine so young.
Bryan