Celebrating the 50th Harvest Season
The 2022 crush marks the 50th Joseph Phelps Vineyards harvest season. For half a century, Phelps has crushed Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir, and more, since 1973. The Joseph Phelps Vineyards inaugural harvest consisted of just three wines: Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and Johannisberg Riesling, all custom crushed at nearby wineries. With winery construction completed just […]
98 Points 2019 Insignia ~ James Suckling
98 points – 2019 Joseph Phelps Insignia A very aromatic Insignia with pencil-shaving and graphite highlights to the dark fruit and blackberries. Full-bodied, yet tensioned and vertical, with very fine tannins that run deep and layered in the wine… fantastic tension and structure. (2022) — James Suckling 94 points – 2019 Joseph Phelps Napa Valley Cabernet […]
Robert Parker Wine Advocate: Proem Wines Reviewed
I tasted the latest project from Joseph Phelps Freestone with winemaker Justin Ennis. Called Proem, this new set of wines is composed of clonal and block-specific bottlings from their Freestone Ranch. -Erin Brooks 95 points – 2018 Joseph Phelps Proem No. 1 Pinot Noir, Sonoma Coast The 2018 Proem #1 offers exceptional purity and complexity. […]
New Release: 2017 Ovation Sparkling Wine
Celebrate summer with our latest vintage of Ovation Sparkling Wine! This second vintage of Ovation is 78% Chardonnay and 22% Pinot Noir from our Freestone Estate on the Sonoma Coast. The wine was aged en tirage for 46 months before disgorging in April. The wine opens with stone fruit essence, ripe green apple, lemon peel […]
The Next Chapter of Joseph Phelps Vineyards
The Next Chapter She keeps Joe’s memory active through story telling of his accomplishments. Napa Valley pioneer and creative visionary Joseph Phelps founded his namesake winery in 1973. Since then, we’re proud to have grown from a 600-acre cattle ranch into an internationally acclaimed winery – all while maintaining the joie de vivre that Joe […]
Proem Wines Continue to Amaze
Near perfect scores from James Suckling for the second vintage of Joseph Phelps Proem wine releases from our Freestone Estate. The two tiny-production, super-quality pinot noirs from Joseph Phelps Freestone Estate are almost equally compelling in quality in the 2019, the most recent release. The reds come from parcels in the Occidental-Freestone area on the […]
Introducing Proem Chardonnay
Proem A preamble to a story. We are pleased to introduce Joseph Phelps Proem No. 4 Chardonnay. Each bottling represents a sense of place, the purest expression of our Freestone Estate on the western Sonoma Coast. This wine was made from our Block 215 at Pastorale Vineyard, planted to heritage clone Montrachet. The fruit was […]
Robb Report: A Pair of Seriously Exciting Pinots
A Napa Wine Legend Has Released a Pair of Seriously Exciting Pinot Noirs From West Sonoma By SARA L. SCHNEIDER Check the meaning of the word “proem” in Merriam-Webster, and you’ll find “preliminary comment”—a preface or a prelude. Joseph Phelps Vineyards expands that, poetically, into “a preamble to a story.” It would seem that the […]
99 Point Debut Proem Pinot Noir Release
I found a really great red from Northern California last week. One is the late release of a special selected pinot noir from Joseph Phelps: Joseph Phelps Pinot Noir Sonoma County Sonoma Coast Freestone Estate Proem No.1 2018. It’s an exceptional quality single plot, single clone pinot from Joseph Phelps’ coastal Sonoma vineyards near Bodega […]