2013 Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon Backus Vineyard

Community Tasting Notes (15) Avg Score: 95 points

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  1/27/2024 - sfbikeguy Likes this wine:

  NR - Purchased recently from KL recently when they were selling a number of past vintages. Opened D1 with 3 hours of decanting. Tried the wine on opening and immediately regretted opening the bottle. It's too early to open this wine. Drank half of the bottle D1 with my somm buddy. Lots of tannins. Definitely high quality and got some 'maple syrup'. D2: settled down a bit. mix berry syrup and some vanilla with the oak. Again, too early to enjoy in my opinion.
  
  Small side note: our brown bag included an '82 3 Palms and an '12 Pape Clement. Palms was excellent and Pape was excellent D2.
  
  I have at least one of every Backus vintage going back to 1997 and I've only opened the 2004. Wait 20 on these. There are not many opportunities to enjoy and the wine needs to integrate.
  
  Cheers.

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  9/17/2023 - Darwine Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Opened up nicely with a nose of dark fruit and some leatger. Further opening added a nice herbal essence - maybe a little cardigan. Flavors were full of dark cherry and blackberry with some ripe dark plum. Finish was beautiful with that dark fruit and a nice blackberry twinge of acid. A beautiful wine!!

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  8/27/2023 - TrojanMatt Likes this wine:

  Decanted for an hour and drank over several hours. Smooth and seemed quite ready to drink in terms of well-integrated tannins, but strangely muted on the nose and on the palate. It was not corked or seemingly otherwise flawed, so maybe in a dumb phase, although others’ notes here don’t suggest that. I have more bottles, so I will try another one later and see if maybe it was just an off bottle somehow.

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  5/27/2023 - markcic Likes this wine: 95 Points

  This wine was opened three hours prior to dinner and drank against a 2013 Insignia and a 2006 Cos d'Estournel. The nose on this wine was spectacular with dark berries and hints of chocolate. The palate was dark berries, dark cherry, tobacco and chocolate leading to a long finish. My good Michael preferred this wine over the Insignia. I have rated them the same but I did prefer the Insignia.

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  4/15/2023 - evanlyall Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Awesome bottle. Will be good for many years is my guess. Bold but smooth

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