2001 Joseph Phelps Insignia
Community Tasting Note
jviz wrote:
95 Points
Sunday, February 27, 2022 - Double decanted and served blind. Dark hue with some bricking.
On the nose, really regal, with some rosemary and blue/black fruit potpourri. Well integrated but with excellent depth and concentration and some pencil lead minerals. We thought it might have been a top wine from Graves. Sappy but not so sun-kissed that guessed tended toward old world. We suspected a ripe year, like 98. Anyway, this showed impeccably well and Phelps’ insignias from that era (we’ll say 95-05) have aged almost uniformly well in my opinion.
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Comment posted by JAZZ4U:
3/1/2022 6:15:00 PM - Agreed with your comments. I opened one up 2 weeks ago and enjoyed it, but would have loved more fruit @ 20 years. Definitely Insignia plateaus @ 12-15 years and stays the same for another 1-2 decades. The plus for Insignia is that if you store properly, it will last for 30 years at the same quality level. Not a cult fruit forward blend, but a more refined California version of a left bank 1st-2nd growth.