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100 Point Rating Guide | ||
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| 96-100 | Extraordinary | A wine of finesse, complexity, and expression. True to variety and region. Perfect balance of flavors with a long finish. |
| 90-95 | Excellent | True to variety and region, with terrific complexity and balance. While not a wine for the ages, a superior example. |
| 85-89 | Good | Meets your expectations, with sound flavors and balance. Might have limited complexity or be short on the palate. A sound wine. |
| 80-84 | Average | Drinkable, might not have as much varietal character. Simple flavors, no flaws, but nothing special. |
| 75-79 | Below Average | Might contain one flaw, simple straight-forward flavors, off-balance, unpleasant. |
| 60-74 | Undrinkable, Flawed | Contains significant flaws. Unpleasant, not commercially acceptable. |
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1 User Review
Dec 03, 2007
1994 Joseph Phelps 'Napa Valley' Cabernet Sauvignon
From a large commercial cellar tasted Nov 30, 2007.
Unbelievably youthful! Packed with the darkest black cherries and lushest currant fruit. Very deep, plush and velvety with great richness and a magnanimous intensity and noble bearing that demands long, slow sips. While not as subtle to my tastes as the Freemark Abbey, this wine shows remarkable vitality for it's it's nearly 14 years of age. I suspect well stored this wine could be capable of another 10 years or more in a cool dark location. This still shows a remarkable consistency and definition of flavors that with no degradation for it's exposure to copious amounts of oxygen as I swirled it with maniacal zeal for several hours.
