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           Copyright © Ric Einstein 2008

 

 

 

Penley Estate 2005 Chertsey SAMay08 is a Bordeaux blend that will sell for $50 from cellar door when it is released, and is sealed under cork. Four hundred cases have been produced. The bouquet shows ripe black cherry, spice and floral notes; it's very complex and attractive. The wine maintains a lovely, harmonious structure and balance, and the silky tannins, which creep up on you, have a slinky mouth feel. The pure fruit delivers blackcurrant, mocha, black chocolate, spice, and leafy notes which finish very long and with terrific intensity. An impeccable wine of ample-weight, it has a supple consistency, a tight structure and should become seamless in time. It certainly has some class. Rated as Excellent with *** for value; it should enter its peak drinking window between 2012 and 2019.

 

 

Copyright © Ric Einstein 2008

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