"Medium deep colour, Fragrant and evolved blackcurrant, blackberry, cedar/cigar box, hint tobacco leaf aromas with vanilla, toasted almond, Turkish Delight notes. Well concentrated palate with plentiful blackcurrant, blackberry mulberry fruits, persistent fine grainy tannins, attractive mid-palate volume and lovely crème brulée, marzipan, vanilla oak notes. Finishes chocolatey with excellent mineral length. This is a beautiful Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon with the density, complexity and torque to develop for the long haul. Based on Reynell Selection Cabernet Sauvignon and aged in new French oak for 18 months. The buoyant fruit and balanced structure makes it easy to drink, but its best years are ahead." - Andrew Caillard, MW
"As true to Coonawarra for its structure, density and weight, as it is to cabernet for its cassis, blackberries and spice. This is voluminous, expansive, and eminently classy, with a pedigree of fruit that veritably floods the palate with flavour. It endures long into the finish, telling us what we need to know about its capacity for ageing. The tannins too are expertly crafted, countersunk into the fruit, and at no point intrusive to the experience." - Erin Larkin, Wine Companion
"The story of Parker Estate is built around the fact that they hold some of the finest pieces of Terra Rossa in Coonawarra. Ever since Faye and John Parker selected and secured a select piece of land from the Abbey family in the 1980s, the path was set to produce a benchmark expression of this uniquely Australian piece of terroir.
Planted in 1985, the Abbey Vineyard, and more specifically the 95 Block, has produced the First Growth bottling. The vineyard surrounds the cellar door, where you can see the special red soil over limestone combination.
I remember myself as a young sommelier coveting the chance to taste a bottle of First Growth. It has always adhered to an “old world” approach to Cabernet - medium bodied, subtle and complex through the back palete. Hugely age-worthy, showing endless changes in profile as it ages through the decades." - Fesq
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