Community Tasting Note

graemeg Does not like this wine:

Sunday, March 28, 2010 - {screwcap, 14.5%, A$15} Long time since I've visited this end of the Penfolds portfolio. This wine is a good reminder of why. Good solid-looking ruby-red, although with a shallowness about it. The nose is all sweet ripe red fruits - quite anonymous and not especially cabernet-ish. Palate offers minimal tannins, sweet (and getting sweeter) red jubey-jamlike fruits along with licks of tar and soy, no real depth or persistence, moreover it tends to cluster around the front and sides of the palate; little mid-palate to speak of, and a warmish, faintly alcoholic and quite short finish. Mainstream international style, could come from anywhere, perfectly serviceable and utterly forgettable as well. Penfolds would do well to disassociate themselves from this style of wine altogether.

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