Crazy Penfolds tasting note
Posted: Tue Dec 05, 2023 5:03 am
I just had a totally anodyne Pennies Max's Shiraz/Cabernet 2019 that could have been from anywhere with ripe sweet fruit.
Unobjectionably but a bit sad as a "global ambassador" for Oz which is widely available.
While checking its technical details, I came across Penfolds own tasting note for this:
Nose: Notes of graphite and heady varnish to the fore. A distinctive blue-fruited elegance and gorgeous cranberry sweetness. An aromatic kaleidoscope of vanilla sponge, cannoli creaminess, asphalt, wet slate, juniper and pink peppercorn.
Palate: A salinity – perhaps best described as salted plum? Coolness/flowing texture. Spearmint tea (fresh leaves) and lavender. Graphite from the nose continues as a theme on the palate, Black olive tapenade. Ylang Ylang, powdery-style tannins that are tapered on the palate. All clearly converging to a well-defined point.
I think my favourite is "Ylang Ylang ... tannins"... for those like myself unfamiliar with this, it is a tropical tree that is native to and originated in the Philippines and spread to Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Queensland per Wikipedia. It is used to make perfume, god knows whoever tried chewing enough of it to find a wine tannin to be identical.
Unobjectionably but a bit sad as a "global ambassador" for Oz which is widely available.
While checking its technical details, I came across Penfolds own tasting note for this:
Nose: Notes of graphite and heady varnish to the fore. A distinctive blue-fruited elegance and gorgeous cranberry sweetness. An aromatic kaleidoscope of vanilla sponge, cannoli creaminess, asphalt, wet slate, juniper and pink peppercorn.
Palate: A salinity – perhaps best described as salted plum? Coolness/flowing texture. Spearmint tea (fresh leaves) and lavender. Graphite from the nose continues as a theme on the palate, Black olive tapenade. Ylang Ylang, powdery-style tannins that are tapered on the palate. All clearly converging to a well-defined point.
I think my favourite is "Ylang Ylang ... tannins"... for those like myself unfamiliar with this, it is a tropical tree that is native to and originated in the Philippines and spread to Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Queensland per Wikipedia. It is used to make perfume, god knows whoever tried chewing enough of it to find a wine tannin to be identical.
