Tasting Note
Sydney Time
Copyright © Ric Einstein 2009
Copyright © Ric Einstein 2009
Punters Corner 2005 Sovereign Reserve Cabernet
Sauvignon Jan 09
Sealed under Procork, it retails for around $65 a bottle. The bouquet is as
lovely as it is serious with dark fruits and spicy, leathery oak. The wine is
well balanced but the abundant, dusty tannins currently bury the deeply-seated
fruit. The noticeably spicy oak dominates the off-sweet fruit that finishes bone
dry. Loads of mint and tobacco also show. Ample in weight, it is firm, solid and
tight; a quality wine, it has all the components, but needs time. Rated as
Highly Recommended with *** for value, the rating will improve when it is in its
peak drinking window between 2014 and 2021.
