PENFOLDS MAGILL ESTATE SHIRAZ 2019

Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz 2019

COLOUR
Dense plum red

NOSE
Smells like … Magill Shiraz! Tell-tale lavender florals and subtle wafts of unmistakable Penfolds élevage – “more flinty than formic”! Certainly convinces that what is poured is at the riper end of the Magill fruit spectrum – an energetic thrust of a soaked dark boiled
fruit cake richness. Beneath this saturated propulsion – gravy notes (lamb) with thyme and Moroccan spices, and just a skerrick of distant oak. Open ferments, basket pressing, and barrel ferment certainly have coalesced to escribe their aromatic Magill mark!

PALATE
Raspberry coulis, seed of plum/dark cherry and anise. Please excuse the chocolate penchant … but where to begin?
• Chocolate fondue (self-melting) with crushed nuts.
• Chocolate coated ginger.
• Black Forest cake and ‘real’ Rocky Road with cherry.
“Italianesque” acidity and salivating tannins collude to deliver a mouth-watering finish. And, this finish is also endowed with a reminder of oak derived cola/vanillin/malt.

VARIETIES: Shiraz
REGION: Magill Estate – Australia
AGEING: 18 Months In French (26% New) And American (6% New) Oak Hogsheads
GUARDING POTENTIAL: 15 years ±
SERVE: Serve at 16ºC – 18ºC
CRITICS SCORES: 94/WS
VIVINO: Average 4.4 ★★★★✰

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Magill Estate | Range | Penfolds

The historic Penfolds Magill Estate is one of the few single vineyards in the world located within city boundaries. First planted in 1844. at its peak in 1949, then planted to several varieties, the vineyard covered 120 hectares. First produced in 1983, Magill Estate Shiraz is distinctly different to the mainstream Penfolds style, showing intense floral/ blackberry/ aniseed aromas, smooth richness and a ‘long spine’.

The single-vineyard Magill Estate Shiraz is intrinsically linked to Penfolds beginnings. Sourced from the Magill vineyard on the edge of Adelaide’s eastern suburbs (just eight kilometres from the city’s CBD), fruit is crushed, fermented and matured on-site at the original winery, established in 1844. Magill Estate Shiraz, first produced in 1983, is an elegant, medium-weight style with velvety texture and fine tannins, matured in both French and American oak. It is a sleek, contemporary wine, yet crafted the original way: hand-picked, vinified in open fermenters and then basket pressed to complete fermentation in barrel.