2009 Penley Estate Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

Community Tasting Notes (5) Median Score: 91 points

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  7/11/2020 - paulf wrote: 91 Points

  Very deep dark colour and quite an intense nose of dark fruits, spice, cedar and some capsicum. Quite sweet initially before assertive tannins dry out the flavour. It finishes a touch hot but there is plenty of power and flavour.

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  1/14/2017 - LindsayM Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Tasted this wine along side the 2009 Chertsey which is their Bordeaux Blend , well folks , chalk and cheese the Reserve Cabernet must have got all of best barrels
  The reserve is richer ,smoother ,more balance and a finish that goes into next week
  
  Colour dark almost black, garnet on the rim 15/15
  Nose rich smooth balanced - chocolate cassis cedar violets blackcurrents plums , black cherry mint great complexity ,intensity and balance 30/30
  Palate nose follows though on the palate , great balance and intensity super smooth velvety finish 42/44
  Overall maybe because I'm drinking this out of Riedel Sommelier Cabernet glass but Coonawarra Cabernet doesn't get much better than this 10/11

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  8/12/2016 - chatters wrote:

  Coonawarra Roadshow (Ivy, George Street, Sydney): Concentrated black fruit, almost to the point of that savoury concentrate level. Something confected here as well. And some cedar. On the palate it has sweetish fruit on the palate with chalky tannins…bit belchy as well. Meh

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  4/8/2014 - PSPatrick wrote: 90 Points

  The wine was dark ruby in colour and offered black currant, cherry, blackberry, cedar and dark chocolate on the nose. On the palate the wine showed black currant, cherry, some leather, dark chocolate and espresso, paired with medium to medium-plus acidity, medium-plus tannin and very good length. The full-bodied, medium-complex wine benefited from aeration and became very balanced and drank well after two hours in the decanter. Still young. 90+

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  2/17/2012 - graemeg wrote:

  2012 Sydney Royal Wine Show - Exhibitor's Tasting (Olympic Park, Homebush): Bronze medal. {cork, 15%} All currants, cedary oak and alcoholic fumes. From the ‘more is better’ school. Medium-high powdery tannins, medium-full body; it avoid jamminess on the palate, being long on currants, and hence resoloutely cabernet. Has a touch of mint to it too. Plenty of action right along the palate; the alcohol doesn’t stick out on the palate. Needs lots of time, but might walk a fine line between true evolution and a kind of inflated artifice. I don’t think 15% alcohol is very useful to Coonawarra cabernet in the long term.

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