Joseph Phelps Insignia
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Petit Verdot
- Malbec
- Cabernet Franc
- Tracked vintages
- 49
- Community notes
- 5,355
- Merchant offers
- 435
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002022 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 94/ 1005,355 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £178per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- Drinking window
- 2025–2040drinking2022 vintage
Flavour and structure
An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.
Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet. Style: Napa Valley Bordeaux blend.
- Body5.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin4.0 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.0 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · graphite
- Oak · cedar, clove, dark chocolate
- Black fruit · blackberry, cassis
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Petit Verdot, Malbec, Cabernet Franc. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.
1976One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
- 202295criticunit not stated
- 202197criticunit not stated
- 202093critic
- 201997critic£178 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201897critic£167 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201795critic£186 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
- 201698critic£147 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
- 201597critic£165 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201496critic£92 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 201397critic£275 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
- 201295critic£158 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201193critic£428 / 75cl6000 ml shop ask, September 2026
- 201095critic£192 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
- 200994critic£133 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020
- 200894critic£180 / 75cl3-1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2022
- 200795critic£329 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
- 200694critic£75 / 75cl1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2015
- 200594critic£123 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2015
- 200495criticunit not stated
- 200393critic£169 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 200296critic£450 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
- 200195criticunit not stated
- 200090critic£89 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016
- 199992criticunit not stated
- 199892drinkersunit not stated
- 199796critic£238 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, February 2016
- 199693critic£140 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016
- 199595critic£134 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, May 2016
- 199493criticunit not stated
- 199390criticunit not stated
- 199292drinkersunit not stated
- 199198critic
- 199090drinkersunit not stated
- 198989drinkers
- 198888drinkersunit not stated
- 198790drinkers
- 198693drinkersunit not stated
- 198592drinkersunit not stated
- 198491drinkersunit not stated
- 198390drinkers
- 198293drinkers
- 198188drinkersunit not stated
- 198091drinkers£200 / 75cl3-3000 ml in-bond trade, March 2025
- 197991drinkers
- 197891drinkersunit not stated
- 197793drinkers
- 197697critic£467 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, January 2017
- 197593drinkersunit not stated
- 197497drinkersunit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 1991
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2016
- drinking, window 2022–2060
- Lowest price
- 2006
- £75 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £178 | 97.1 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2018 | £167 | 97.2 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2017 | £186 | 95 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022 |
| 2016 | £147 | 97.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026 |
| 2015 | £165 | 96.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2014 | £92 | 96.4 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026 |
| 2013 | £275 | 96.6 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022 |
| 2012 | £158 | 95 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2011 | £428 | 93.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6000 ml shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2010 | £192 | 95 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020 |
| 2009 | £133 | 94 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020 |
| 2008 | £180 | 93.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2022 |
| 2007 | £329 | 95.4 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021 |
| 2006 | £75 | 93.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2015 |
| 2005 | £123 | 93.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2015 |
| 2003 | £169 | 92.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2002 | £450 | 96 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023 |
| 2000 | £89 | 90.3 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016 |
| 1997 | £238 | 95.9 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2016 |
| 1996 | £140 | 93.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016 |
| 1995 | £134 | 94.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2016 |
| 1980 | £200 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 3-3000 ml in-bond trade, March 2025 |
| 1976 | £467 | 96.5 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2017 |
Where to go next
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