The key for Penley's wines is balance. Time and again Kym Tolley manages to combine all the necessary elements - fruit, clean flavours and judicious oak to achieve elegance and finesse in a pleasingly understated, integrated way. Remarkably, since its inception, Penley wines have won 41 Trophies, 128 gold medals, 194 silver medals and 404 bronze medals in both Australian and International competitions.
Wonderfully elegant, beautifully made; perfect for all the "Anything But Chardonnay" drinkers out there, this is the wine to change your mind. Price: £13.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
The grapes for this wine are picked at the moment their flavours are at their best and to also make sure the character of the Coonawarra area is still present. Fermentation takes place in French oak barrels for a period of 7-10 days.
A deep coloured wine with purple hues. The bouquet is restrained and shows red berry fruit and sweet vanilla oak. On the palate the wine shows ripe black and red fruit and cassis, low-medium tannins and is medium to full bodied.
90/100 The Wine Advocate Price: £13.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
91/100 R Parker
Sommelier Wine Awards 2009 - Gold List Price: £13.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
90/100 R Parker Price: £13.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
This classic Australian red captures and enhances the distinctive characters of the Coonawarra.
These are highlighted by rich berry tones with a great length and depth of flavour.
"Classic aromas of creme de cassis, charcoal, coffee, spice box, and toasty oak emerge from this tannic, backward, rich, layered, sustantially flavoured and endowed Cabernet Sauvignon." 93/100 R Parker
Gold Medal, International Wine Challenge
Price: £29.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
The name comes from the town in which the Tolley family lived in England before emigrating to Australia.
It is made from 100% estate grown fruit and is also non-filtered, which gives greater complexity.
Impressive, rich and powerful.
92+/100 Robert Parker Price: £29.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
This wine is matured for up to two years in French hogshead and barrique style barrels to help the components of the wine to marry.
The colour is deep red and the nose shows a delicate almost perfumed character with overtones of blackberry fruit. The satiny palate shows restraint and flavours of lively blackberry and cherry fruit with soft tannins derived from the fruit and oak.
Winner of the Coonawarra Trophy at the 2006 International Wine Challenge.
91+/100 The Wine Advocate
Tiny quantities remain. Price: £29.99 Including VAT at 17.5%
The depth of colour is dark and thick, tending toward black.
The aromas show intense blackberry fruit, pepper and spice.
The palate is a big ripe sweet style with rich intensity with lingering flavours of cedar and tobacco drawn in part from the oak. Whilst a powerful style, shows a degree of softness and balance. Price: £33.01 Including VAT at 17.5%
