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The original label from Phelps. This wine qualifies as the reason you age wine as long as you do. The tannins are still there yet only 95% resolved even after 23 years or 21 in bottle. The wine melts in your mouth. There's nothing angular or rubs your palate the wrong way. The fruits are still dark cassis; blackberries, black cherries, black plum skin, melted mocha milk chocolate, raspberry chocolate cake, dry crushed rocks, spice-box, dry florals, old leather, vanilla, it's crazy but there's a hit of baked peach coming through, there is still a little tension, it's still showing great balance, structure, length, acidity and a finish that does not end. This wine still has 3-5+ years of life even out of 750ml. It's one of the best old Phelps I've had in awhile and I've recently had a number of old Insignia's and Backus's from the 80's and 90's. Given what I paid for this wine, I feel like I've stolen candy from a baby and then some. The purity is incredible if not just plain ridiculous!!! This 93 is sunlight in the rain w/ a rainbow.
The original label from Phelps. This wine qualifies as the reason you age wine as long as you do. The tannins are still there yet only 95% resolved even after 23 years or 21 in bottle. The wine melts in your mouth. There's nothing angular or rubs your palate the wrong way. The fruits are still dark cassis; blackberries, black cherries, black plum skin, melted mocha milk chocolate, raspberry chocolate cake, dry crushed rocks, spice-box, dry florals, old leather, vanilla, it's crazy but there's a hit of baked peach coming through, there is still a little tension, it's still showing great balance, structure, length, acidity and a finish that does not end. This wine still has 3-5+ years of life even out of 750ml. It's one of the best old Phelps I've had in awhile and I've recently had a number of old Insignia's and Backus's from the 80's and 90's. Given what I paid for this wine, I feel like I've stolen candy from a baby and then some. The purity is incredible if not just plain ridiculous!!! This 93 is sunlight in the rain w/ a rainbow.
Elegant and herbaceous with red berries and tight yet almost resolved tannins. Fresh acidity and clever oak treatment, this is beautifully mature and tastes more Bordeaux-ish than Napa. Stylish.
Elegant and herbaceous with red berries and tight yet almost resolved tannins. Fresh acidity and clever oak treatment, this is beautifully mature and tastes more Bordeaux-ish than Napa. Stylish.
Napa Valley, California, USA
