1996 Insignia
United States
Napa
Red
83% Cabernet Sauvignon, 17% Merlot
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2016 - 2024
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Assuming you could let the fruit hang and not rush to pick, the 1997 vintage produced some amazing wines, reports winemaker Craig Williams. Despite, or perhaps because of, the high yields, the wines are rich in extract, says Williams. The large crop level, he feels, enabled growers to leave fruit on the vine without getting overripeness, thereby gaining concentration of color and flavor. Nineteen ninety-six was a more challenging year due to the cool, wet spring and widely varying maturity within grape clusters; to protect the quality of its Insignia bottling, Phelps bottled half as much wine as in previous years.
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Winemaker Craig Williams reports that 1997 is a wildly uneven year for cabernet, but potentially outstanding. The wines are not generally as tannic as years like '96 and '93, he says, but they possess deep pigmentation. "Quality and weight depends largely on when you picked," he says. "There will be some very rich wines and some much smaller ones." He singled out cabernet from Stag Leap as particularly sweet and high in extract in '97. The white wines made here continue to improve, as Phelps has backed off on acidification since the '93 vintage.
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