Realm's 2021 The Tempest is 67% Merlot

Best from 2011 through 2014

with its purity and elegance paired with textbook Cabernet notes of crème de cassis

Shows impressive depth for the vintage

and it needs a couple of years in bottle to digest the wood

Lucien Le Moine, Meursault Charmes Size:6x750ml Realm's 2021 The Tempest isA notably ripe but not really exotic nose offers up notes of both white and yellow orchard fruit, floral elements and a hint of pain grill. There is fine richness and a really lovely sense of underlying tension to the lightly mineral infused medium bodied flavors that coat the mouth with dry extract that serves to buffer the relatively firm acid spine on the citrusy, long and impressively complex finale. This too is a wine of harmony and balance. (91