2005 Insignia
United States
Napa
Red
92% Cabernet Sauvignon, 7% Petit Verdot, 1% Merlot
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2018 - 2027
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Craig Williams gave a succinct description of the challenges posed by the 2006 growing season. "It was very wet early in the year, with a lot of rain into late spring," he began. "We started with a good crop but then a huge heat spike in late July really fried the grapes on the west side of vines planted north-south. Some grapes never really went through veraison and so never ripened properly. We dropped a lot of crop due to predictions of a cool late season and didn't start harvesting cabernet until the beginning of October." My early look at these 2006s suggests that the wines are evolving very slowly, but then the excellent '05s here were also slow to reveal themselves.
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This winery's venture in the cool Freestone area of western Sonoma County is finally bearing fruit, as the winery will offer its first pinot noir under the Freestone label with the 2005 vintage, as well as a very good chardonnay that they decided to declassify to their second label, Fog Dog. Meanwhile, on the other side of the North Coast, winemaker Craig Williams admitted that Phelps brought in literally twice as much fruit in 2005 as in 2004 (3.5 tons per acre, vs. 1.7) despite dropping a good deal of the crop. Of course, noted Williams, the 2004 production was cut significantly by ten days of shriveling in a heat wave beginning at the end of August. The Insignia blend continues to be one of California's most reliably superb red wines, but on this latest visit it was the 2004 Backus Vineyard bottling that snagged my attention.
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