I think I bought over a dozen bottles of this wine, plus a few magnums. It is one of my son’s birth year wines, and as it is now 10 years old, and it is time to try a bottle. Dark cherries, raspberries, coffee grounds, graphite, black earth, maybe even some tar. The palate is tightly wound, concentrated fruits, raspberries and plums, coffee grounds, painfully young – could easily be mistaken for a two or three year old wine. Still too young, but has super potential.
Other vintages: 1997
Rated : 91+ Points
Tasted : Jan09
Alcohol : 14%
Price : $45
Closure : Cork
Drink : 2014-2020+
Source : Cellar
Website : Penfolds
1999 Penfolds St Henri Shiraz
Lovely aroma – fragrant red and black fruits, violets, nutmeg and pepper. A powerful core of black fruit, earth, anise, some new leather and finishing with very assertive yet controlled tannins. Excellent wine
That was my note… it’s a lovely wine, drinking well now I reckon but plenty of life in it yet. Spot on with the tar, missed that in my note.
Cheers,
Mike
Thank you – I also have magnums of this. leave to sleep for some time by the sounds.