Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz 2001

Magill Estate Shiraz is a very important Penfolds' single vineyard wine. It is of great symbolic importance because it is the only wine grown and made on the remaining 5 hectares of the original Penfolds property at Magill, established in 1844, in Adelaide's eastern suburbs.
First made in 1983, Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz is an elegant, medium-weight style with velvety texture and fine tannins, matured in both new-French and new-american oak. it is a sleek, contemporary wine, yet crafted in the old fashioned way in the 120-year-old winery: hand-picked, vinified in open fermenters and then basket pressed. Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz has been packaged in laser-etched bottles since the 1997 vintage.
Vineyard region Magill Estate Vineyard, adelaide (8 kms from the adelaide Town hall).
Vintage Conditions a season similar to Mclaren Vale, just to the south, however, the crop ripened early and came in excellent condition before
the March rain. Fruit was hand picked between February 12th and 15th, the earliest Magill Estate vintage on record. The fruit again benefited from the ‘hands-on', open-fermented, basket pressed approach, literally metres from the vineyard.
grape Variety Shiraz (Syrah)
Maturation 14 months in new French (73%)
and new american (27%) oak.
Wine analysis alc/Vol: 14.00%
acidity: 6.80g/l
ph: 3.56
Food Matches ideally suited to Beef, Cheese, lamb

WINEMAKER COMMENTS

by Peter Gago
COLOUR lively deep crimson.
NOSE at once both savoury and spicy. Nutmeg and plummy/dark cherried fruitcake aromas oscillate alongside notes of rum and raisin dark
chocolate. Cedary French oak helps preserve the varietal and regional aromatic integrity of this single estate shiraz.
PALATE a medium weight palate, with mulberry and wild raspberry fruits, tightly contained by satiny tannins that literally coat the whole
mouth. Charming, balanced, and long lingering flavours, are courted by malty oak and ideal acidity. in the mould of the 1996 release.

CELLAR

 peak drinking 2005 - 2015

 

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RRP:	95.00
Your Price:	85.00	($AU inc. GST)
Min. order quantity:	1