Community Tasting Notes 117

• garrigue65 Likes this wine: 93 points

  February 10, 2024 - Three hour slow ox decant. Big notes of dark fruit with tobacco , cedar pencil shavings, graphite, with significant silky tannins. Really continues to evolve in the glass. Drinking well now but needs serious cellar time to develop more complexity and smooth out those tannins.

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• Darwine Likes this wine: 96 points

  January 24, 2024 - This wine took 45 minutes to finally open up. Nose was earthy with leather and cedar and a hint of dark fruit. Flavors followed with black raspberry and some ripe plum. Finish was perfect and long with nice layered tannins with some dark fruit and a good acid balance.

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• SonnyChiba wrote: 93 points

  January 18, 2024 - Showing some nice age right now, not sure how much it will improve. Having tried older vintages of Insignia I think this 09’ is in a sweet spot for my preference.

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• JoeDwine Likes this wine: 94 points

  August 17, 2023 - With Flannery Bone in NY….
  Luscious but not too much. Very linear with overflowing
  Cassis, Dark Berries and Plums. Tannins resolved but still giving a bit of texture. Outstanding.
  Revisit in 2029 for some more development .
  Drink easily into 2035.

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• mflesh wrote:

  August 6, 2023 - Insignia.
  
  It's just good juice.
  
  Really good juice.
  
  Even as a 2009, this wine is still rather young. A knife and fork blackberry cassis and blueberry cake donut with a hint of molasses and tar. But still had noticeable roasted tannin that was just still covering the finish of this wine rather substantially but has a heart amount of black pepper. I always seem to love these when they are open. The younger vintages of this can be very unilateral, and undoubtedly this one needs another 5 years in bottle to be at optimal drinking. A delicious wine in its young adulthood! I last had this bottle 10 years ago when it was just released and was really disappointed at that time but I know it was certain it was too young to drink back then. As expected, this one has done well with 10yrs in the cellar! At this point, drink with a healthy decant, or better yet, hold!

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2009
• Type Red
• Producer Joseph Phelps
• Varietal Red Bordeaux Blend
• Designation Insignia
• Vineyard n/a
• Country USA
• Region California
• SubRegion Napa Valley
• Appellation Napa Valley
• UPC Codes 010465709608, 4450487097509

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• Pending Delivery 42 (0%)
• In Cellars 6,765 (67%)
• Consumed 3,228 (32%)

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