Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard 1985 Rheinhessen delicious and persistent finale

delicious and persistent finale

There is very good richness and volume to the sleekly muscular middle weight flavors that possess just enough minerality to notice

Once again the mouthfeel of the medium-bodied flavors is quite sleek if not necessarily more complex on the sappy

The palate impression is impressively rich with excellent volume along with plenty of the hallmark minerality suffusing the sleek

but elegant and complex

Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard 1985 Rheinhessen delicious and persistent finaleThe backward 1985 Eisele Vineyard is marvelously concentrated, but extremely tannic and at least 5 10 years away from full maturity. Impressively endowed, well focused, dense, powerful, thick, and tannic, this wine leaves little doubt that the extract, ripeness, and quantity of fruit are more than sufficient to balance out the wine's tannic ferocity.