Community Tasting Notes 264

• Buyer and cellar wrote: 96 points

  April 17, 2024 - Was one of the wines of the night at an all mag dinner that included some heavy hitting mags (ie Redigaffi, Ovid Hexameter, Valbuena #5, some high scoring aussie, and others. Some thought it was the WOTN but all agreed it was absolutely in a prime drinking window right now. Lots of mature, rich balanced black fruit, leather, tobacco, chocolate, and earth notes are perfectly rounding out the glass.

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• Baback Likes this wine: 94 points

  March 30, 2024 - 13.5% Napa cab comprised of 90% cab, 7% merit, 3% petit verdot.
  
  Didn’t need the Durand (although I used it) since this cork came out in 1 piece.
  
  Based on previous reviews I popped and poured and oh boy. Home run. Tasted like a 15yo Bordeaux. Full of life, balanced, tons of primary flavors still, mod tannins. Licorice, strawberry, raspberry, chocolate, pipe tobacco, mushroom.
  
  After 1 hour getting some faint tertiary notes, but still fruit forward. Based on prior reviews I was worried this was past it’s prime, but the bottle I had could have gone another 10 years. Terrific wine.

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• Burgundy Al wrote:

  March 16, 2024 - A 65th Birthday Celebration (Schur House - Riverwoods IL): Tired.

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• lesz Likes this wine: 93 points

  November 8, 2023 - part of vertical

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• Old_Diablo wrote: 95 points

  October 18, 2023 - Surprisingly still showing very well, but I would drink this soon. 13.5abv and drinking like a beautiful and well-structured Bordeaux. There is still some intensity, but a more subtle richness, Ripe/dried red and black fruit, sweet dried herbs, licorice, creme de cassis, and forest floor. Some primary fruit left, but dominated by tertiary note. We tried this side by side with the 2007 and we actually like this 1995 vintage more because of its elegance. If we were blind tasting, we would not have guessed this was a Napa cab.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1995
• 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 010465709400, 010465709509, 010465709523, 010465709608, 091882008871

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• Pending Delivery 3 (0%)
• In Cellars 2,982 (56%)
• Consumed 2,294 (43%)

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