{"id":30,"date":"2008-03-04T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-06-20T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:00:57","slug":"innisfree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/2008\/03\/innisfree\/","title":{"rendered":"Innisfree"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’ve been a big fan of Joseph Phelps wine for a long time and I was pleased as punch to see Wine Spectator name the 2002 Insignia wine of the year for 2005. The insignia is a great wine. I have a bottle of the “off year” 2000 in my cellar. I’m waiting for a special occasion to drink that 92+ point wine. Perhaps not quite the same caliber but certainly a perfectly quaffable wine is the Phelps Innisfree cabernet sauvignon. I recently opened a bottle of the ’04 vintage. For about 1\/4 to 1\/5 the price of the insignia you can spend only $25 for this really excellent wine. I’ve had several vintages of the innisfree and have enjoyed them all. I generally love this wine but I have to say I was a little disappointed in the body on this one. The nose was very nice with presentation of mocha, cherry and a hint of smoke. It was medium bodied on the palate with sweet strawberries and cherries. It had a lot of new world red fruits, soft tannins, and the mocha flavor came through nicely on the upper palate. It finishes long and smooth but it was a little bit awkward on the end. There were slight hints of maybe rotten tomatoes? I guess I just was expecting a heavier, satiny body that I’ve had before in the innisfree. Still, it’s a 90 point wine for sure and we didn’t waste a drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a big fan of Joseph Phelps wine for a long time and I was pleased as punch to see Wine Spectator name the 2002 Insignia wine of the year for 2005. The insignia is a great wine. I have a bottle of the “off year” 2000 in my cellar. I’m waiting for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,141],"tags":[57,85,84,59],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cabernet-sauvignon","category-north-america","tag-california","tag-innisfree","tag-joseph-phelps","tag-napa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greginnd.com\/gregdrinks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}