Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard 1985 Rheinhessen but elegant and complex

but elegant and complex

The finish is utterly mouth coating and the aromas of this wine stayed in mind for a month

delicious and persistent finale

It is not as expressive as the 2012—it is a bit more backward—but it is a more serious wine in many ways

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

Joseph Phelps Cabernet Sauvignon Eisele Vineyard 1985 Rheinhessen but elegant and complexThe 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.