| Tasted 26/5/03 at the Parkhill Cellars Penfolds Dinner at Matteo's - 10th wine served. Colour - Dark, almost opaque red-maroon. Nose - dark berries/currants, plums. Palate - lovely mouthfeel, so smooth and velvety yet powerful and concentrate flavours. A big sweet fruit core integrated with cedary oak balanced with loads of fine tannins, plums, blackberries, dark chocolate, hints of roasted coconuts. Much better structure (than the '88) and very long length. Way too young for me - this is "vinfanticide", to borrow from a fellow vinophile, RJM, an oft-quoted term of his! If I had any bottles, they will be locked up and forgotten in my cellar for another 20 years. (Note - my sense of taste and smell are by now well and truly overloaded by now, had to have lots of water and bread. My last bits of the rare Angus eye fillet is cold, but I had to try all the reds with some steak - the match is delicious!) |
