Community Tasting Note

graemeg wrote:

Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - NobleRottersSydney - mostly Penfolds (Fix, St James, Sydney): {cork, 14.5%} [Graeme] Double-decanted two hours earlier off plenty of sediment. Still has the rich blueberry and sweet cedary oak it had back in its youth. It’s a mass of jammy fruit and oak, as though Penfolds had invented it specifically to cash in on the Parker-driven US demand for Barossa shiraz. This is a super-ripe, extracted style, just avoiding dead grape or raisin flavours; a very ‘un-Penfolds’ red. It’s plenty drinkable, with lots of blue and red flavour, but maybe it’s a bit obvious and simple – one-dimensional – in the way the other Penfolds reds weren’t tonight.

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