1988 Joseph Phelps Insignia

Community Tasting Notes (8) Avg Score: 87.8 points

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  4/12/2024 - Javachip Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Allowed to breathe in glass 1 hour. Clear deep garnet-blood red color with bricking at the rim. Lovely notes of red berries, red plums and their liqueurs; cigar humidor, green tobacco, sage, earthy mushrooms, with hints of tidal mud flats, meat juice. Mostly tertiary at this point. Like a traditional old claret.

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  3/28/2015 - Wine_lvr Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Out of double magnum: Mature red. Nose shows mint, chocolate and pipe tobacco. Great balance, elegant has a clear 'old world' touch to it. Nice sweetness. Maybe a bit short but out of this 3 liter bottle it was a wonderful wine. Now fully mature.
  
  Normal bottles are likely past its prime, so here it was a clear large format bonus.

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  4/26/2011 - dannyk8232 wrote: 80 Points

  Fail. Dead.

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  11/28/2009 - iamandyc wrote: 89 Points

  Red fruits that were still relatively lively. Some bricking. Well aged and fairly well balanced. Some leather on the palate as well. Nothing truly special in and of itself but was a nice test of a 21 year old wine. Probably the vintage is more at fault than the age.

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  10/13/2007 - Dave Dalluge wrote: 89 Points

  Thirty Years of Phelps Insignia (1974 through 2004): The nose is very straightforward with red fruit, mushroom, and mineral. The taste is very enjoyable but a bit compact on the palate. Good fruit. Drying tannins. Nice.

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