Phelps Backus Cabernet Sauvignon - 2012 (750ml) Size:750ml black olive and this bottle

black olive and this bottle perhaps less "feral" than I have noticed on previous examples

dry flavors

filled with Asian spice and raspberry tart accents

- Tim Fish (2024)

Anticipated maturity: 2012-2025

Phelps Backus Cabernet Sauvignon - 2012 (750ml) Size:750ml black olive and this bottleThe Cabernet Sauvignon Backus is their single vineyard wine made on the lower hillsides of the Vaca Mountains at the Oakville crossroads. The 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon Backus, a blend of 93% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Malbec and Petit Verdot, spent 24 months in 100% new French oak. There are 2,900 cases of this massive wine, which is certainly the most backstrapping, highly extracted, muscular Cabernet in the Phelps portfolio. It is inky bluish