Community Tasting Note

graemeg wrote:

Monday, May 4, 2009 - NobleRottersSydney - Penfolds prior to 2000 (Alio's, Surrey Hills): [cork, 14%] This is a patrician, majestic wine. At this youthful stage of its life, the lavish, velvety ripe-red fruit predominates on the nose. The palate is an exercise in controlled power, the powdery tannins packed tight into a bed of rich elemental fruit. A long even palate; the balance is a joy to behold, but the rest of the wine is not interested. Drinkable now, but only as an academic exercise; this wine is all about potential. Two bottles, no noticeable differences between them. This really needs to sleep for another twenty years to reveal all it has to offer.

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