Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon
| Vintage: | 2016 |
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| Description: | The 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon (89% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Merlot and Petit Verdot with a touch of Malbec) comes across as very Bordeaux-like, and not dissimilar from a good Medoc. The wine exhibits some cedar, spice box, licorice, and black currant notes with medium body, good acidity, and a fresh finish. It should evolve nicely for up to a decade. Wine maker notes Though it takes a Cabernet Sauvignon designation, Phelps' Cabernet is typically blended with small percentages of Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and/or Malbec for enhanced complexity. Grapes are harvested and fermented in temperature controlled stainless steel tanks in contact with the skins, and aged an average of sixteen months in a combination of roughly 50% new French and American oak barrels and two- to four-year-old French and American oak barrels before being blended, lightly filtered and bottled. Producer In the late 60s, Joseph Phelps was running one of the largest construction companies in the U.S. when he won the bid to build Souverain Winery (now Rutherford Hill) located a few miles outside of St. Helena. Enamored with the beautiful Napa Valley and contemplating a career change, in 1973 he bought the 600-acre Connolly cattle ranch in Spring Valley, and began planting vineyards. The winery was completed in 1974 and that same year the first Syrah was made, the first grapes were crushed at the new facility and the first Insignia was produced. It was a period of unparalleled activity, creativity, ingenuity, entrepreneurship and risk-taking and it put Joe Phelps on the map of top Napa Valley wine producers. Nearly four decades later, the flagship wine, Insignia, is recognized as one of the world's great wines. Twenty nine of 34 vintages have been rated ninety or more points by various wine publications. The 2002 vintage was awarded "Wine of the Year" by Wine Spectator Magazine. Over the years, the goal of becoming 100% estate grown resulted in carefully planned acquisitions of prime vineyards in the Napa Valley. Today, the Phelps estate consists of the Spring Valley Home Ranch outside of St. Helena, Banca Dorada in Rutherford, Las Rocas and Barboza vineyards in Stags Leap, Yountville Vineyard in Oak Knoll, Suscol Vineyard in South Napa and Backus Vineyard in Oakville. |
| Price: | $ 62.97 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Previously available from Little Bros.
| Address: |
67 Church Street Flemington, NJ 08822 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 908-788-3775 |
| Fax: | 908-788-3956 |
First added to 1000 Corks on November 26, 2019.
This product was inactivated December 9, 2019.
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