2012 Penley Estate Chertsey

Community Tasting Notes (4) Avg Score: 91.6 points

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  10/27/2023 - jskuek Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Opened up 3 hours in the bottle... muted in the beginning, but emerged to a beautiful wine towards the end ... drink or hold 3-5 years.

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  4/14/2023 - jskuek Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Drinking nicely at the moment ...

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  3/2/2022 - innesa Likes this wine: 95 Points

  Dark intense red out of the heavyweight bottle. Dark berry fruits and vanilla on the nose. Dark berry fruits, vanilla, smooth fine grained tannins, good length with fine finish. Oak has receded and is now well integrated. A pleasure.

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  10/3/2016 - LindsayM wrote: 94 Points

  From the back label this wine is Cabernet 48% Merlot 34% Cabernet Franc 18% Quite high in Cab Franc
  
  Not knowing a lot about this variety I checked out Jancis Robinson's comments
  Cabernet Franc
  "I'm not a huge enthusiast of the sexual stereotyping of wines but even I can see that Cabernet Franc might be described as the feminine side of Cabernet Sauvignon. It is subtly fragrant and gently flirtatious rather than massively muscular and tough in youth. Because Cabernet Sauvignon has so much more of everything – body, tannin, alcohol, colour – it is often supposed to be necessarily superior, but I have a very soft spot indeed for its more charming and more aromatic relative, Cabernet Franc.
  
  In 1997 it was shown by pioneers of applying DNA analysis to grapevines that Cabernet Sauvignon is the progeny of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon Blanc, so in fact Cabernet Franc, whose origins seem to lie in Basque country in the western Pyrenees, must predate Cabernet Sauvignon by quite a while.
  
  As a vine and a wine, Cabernet Franc is more precocious than Cabernet Sauvignon – but then most varieties are. Cabernet Franc buds and ripens at least a week before Cabernet Sauvignon, which makes it particularly useful in Bordeaux’s cooler vintages when the more famous Cabernet may not reach full ripeness at all. In fact, underripe Cabernet Sauvignon can smell remarkably like fully ripe Cabernet Franc, both of them exhibiting a certain leafy, currant bush aroma. But fully ripe Cabernet Franc has a lovely lightness of touch, lighter and softer than Cabernet Sauvignon so that the wines can mature several years ahead of Cabernet Sauvignon grown in the same vineyard."
  
  Who would have thought that Sauv Blanc had a role to play here!
  When I first tried this wine I thought , well so soft, so feminine which I thought was the merlot , which it is but also the Cab Franc as well
  
  Colour , Medium depth , garnet , Ruby purple hues , translucent 15/15
  Nose excellent balance, intensity and complexity, small berries red and black , cassis chocolate liquorice vanilla (21 months in new French oak will do that) 28/30
  Palate medium intensity full bodied excellent balance lots of flavour and lots of velvety texture. sweet blackcurrant and mulberry, silky tannins silky extra long finish , excellent 41/44
  Overall Super 10/11

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