Slightly toasty and also effervescent. This seemed a touch light, but I did agree with the flavor profile.

The nose has pleasant brioche and pear. The palate is significantly less interesting, and there's some bitterness to the finish. I haven't thought much of the 2006 vintage and this is 1 small step better.

This wine is showing as good as it did 7 years oak. Butter stands out along with golden fruit, oak and refreshing acid.

Drank a small glass over an hour. Ripe earthy funk reminiscent of rotting tomatoes (not a bad thing). The funk blew off after about 30 minutes. On the palate, almost a scorched earth flavor like ash. Dried forest floor. Slight evergreen that is initially quite high-toned and also settled down after 30 minutes. Very nuanced and continued to change over the 1 hour it was in front of me.

Drank a very small glass over an hour. Brooding, woodsy, bramble, spice and acid. This was a pleasant food wine. In all fairness, serving this right after 2007 Innocent white rose didn't do it any favors.

Decanted about an hour. Light, high acid but not high-toned. Pleasant and easy drinking but not terribly exciting. 89-90.

Splash decant, drank a small glass over an hour. Slight anise and funk on the nose. The palate is fairly acidic, wit green bramble and a little beef blood. Nice but quite light, maybe a step down the downward slope. The positive and negative qualities make this difficult for me to score, but it's somewhere in the 91-93 range depending on your preference for older wines.

Decanted a couple hours. For me, this was just too young. I feel Insignia's are quite big, fruity and dense in their youth, and they need 25+ years to lean out. I was curious where this wine would be, and regrettably its quite burly at this time in its life. Hold.

This wine has not aged well, and I wouldn't expect it to. The wine is dense with tar and blackberry, quite pruny with stewed fruit and little/no acid. This was probably better 5-10 years ago.

Drank a small glass over an hour. Nice herbs and red fruits, good balance. Some purple fruit peaks through once in a while. 89-90.

Drank a small glass over 45 minutes. As nice as this was, it didn't measure up to most of the bottles we've had so far. This bottle was more advanced than other non-flawed bottles I've had.