Parker Estate 2001 Terra Rossa Cabernet Sauvignon SA2003

This wine is due for release any day. Looking for a typical Coonawarra cabernet showing leafy green characteristics, then forget this wine. Looking for a bottle of wine for pure enjoyment, then keep reading. The wine has ripe warm aromas of black fruit, coffee, a hint of vanilla and some mint evident but there is nothing green or unripe about this baby.

It’s a muscular weight wine with a firm but supple consistency, the structure is layered and in time should become seamless as the developed complexity ages gracefully. The dusty but creamy tannins provide a lovely mouth feel; the deep, pure dark fruit fills the mouth with dark chocolate, blackcurrant, coffee and mint provide a long finish. This bottle full of fun and enjoyment is rated as Highly Recommended with **** for value at about $30 and my hand written tasting notes say “buy it.”