This is simply a no brainer! A Napa Cabernet Sauvignon produced by a great winery!!
For some reason, everyone seems to think that you have to pay big money to get a good Napa Cab from a well-known producer: not necessarily true. Case in point: Joseph Phelps Innisfree 2008.
Produced primarily from Phelps estate fruit (the same estate that makes the $150 Insignia Cabernet), Innisfree is baby-Phelps only in the regard that the wine is meant to be consumed young and fresh, while the flavors of ripe blueberry, blackberry and currant are at their best. No harsh, drying tannins here: this wine is big, juicy and ripe, oozing with sweet tannins and carrying a noticeably lengthy finish for an under $30 wine!
Well done, Phelps team.
