2002 Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon Napa Valley
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The realistically priced 2002 Cabernet Sauvignon offers rich aromas of black currants, smoke, earth, and herbs. This tasty, savory, rich, supple 2002 can be drunk now or cellared for 10-12 years. Tel. (707) 963-2745; Fax (707) 963-4831
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Robert Parker
Stephen Tanzer, Vinous
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Good ruby-red. Ripe aromas of blackberry, blueberry, truffle, licorice, cocoa powder and charred oak. Concentrated and firmly built, with flavors of sweet dark berries, tobacco, leather, game and currant leaf. Finishes with dusty, fine tannins that still need a year or two to harmonize with the wine's fruit. (The 2003 from barrel came across as less ripe and weighty but quite perfumed, with a strong note of graphite.)
Very good full ruby. Subdued aromas of blackberry, licorice and dark chocolate. More brooding and monolithic today than the 2001. Shows strong black fruit flavors but comes across as rather musclebound today, with its tannins tougher and less integrated.
About the producer
California winery Joseph Phelps is best known for its flagship Insignia cuvée, one of the first and finest proprietary red wines in the Napa Valley.