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Joseph Phelps

Joseph Phelps Insignia

Bordeaux-style Red Blend · Napa Valley, US

From public reviewers
10reviews
94median pts
$200median price
You have to count this as another great Insignia, dry and complex and ageworthy, although the tannins are fierce now, and it may lack just a bit of the glamor of, say, the 2004 or 2001. It's certainly a big wine that floods the mouth with blackberry, black currant, cassis and new oak flavors. The tannins and acids make it aloof, resistant, tough. It wants time in the cellar. Best after 2013. Production was a hefty 13,500 cases. || A glamorous wine, rich and complex, with lots going on. Lacks perhaps some of the dep…

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