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A fresh and focused wine with creamy texture and a long luscious mouth feel with dusty earth baking spices sweet vanilla and fresh fig notes. In the late 1960s Joseph Phelps was running one of the largest construction companies in the U.S. Hensel Phelps Construction Company when he won the bid to build Souverain Winery now Rutherford Hill located a few miles outside of St. Helena. Enamored with the beautiful Napa Valley and contemplating a career change in 1973 Joe bought the 600-acre Connolly cattle ranch in Spring Valley and began planting vineyards and construction of a winery. The first harvest in 1973 yielded Cabernet Sauvignon Pinot Noir and Johannisburg Riesling bottlings all custom crushed at nearby wineries. The Joseph Phelps winery was completed in 1974 in time for harvest crushing grapes for the first Insignia and the first Syrah bottlings. It was a period of unparalleled activity creativity ingenuity entrepreneurship and risk-taking. It put Joe Phelps and his Joseph Phelps Vineyards on the map of top Napa Valley wine producers.