Advantages: cheap, a good young wine, flavour Disadvantages: none
come in a box, but if ordered in bulk, you might have either a cardboard box or a wooden box.
The bottle is shiny black, with a red foil cap on the neck and a white plain label on the body, stating ? PenfoldsKoonungaHillShirazCabernet, and the vintage year? There are a few more lines of sentences in small fonts and I can?t really remember what is it.
Type: Red Wine (I?m sorry xara, it isn?t white)
Contents: the wine has a 14% Alc.Vol and a 750ml capacity. Other vintages might have a 13.5% Alc.Vol. The wine is mostly made up of cabernet sauvignon, and the syrah grape. The cabernet gives the wine the tannins and most of its balance and maturity while the syrah gives it a little spiciness and perhaps, further balancing it when blended. Basically, Australians would call it Shiraz and not Syrah. The wine is claimed to have matured 9 ...
KoonungaHillShirazCabernet from Penfold's is one of my favourite red wine.
What do I like about it is its price, at £5 a bottle, it is in the medium segment of the market but what you get for £5 is of exceptional quality.
I am French, and have spent 10 years of my life nearby Bordeaux. One could even say that prior to moving to England, I did not believe that any country bar France was able of producing good wine... Maybe apart from Spain and Italy, though just about. You would have told me Australia and wine in the same sentence I would have laugh at your face **remember I am French and therefore I am rude**
I was lucky enough one day to spend 2 month working for a canadian wine and spirit advertising agency which had within their portfolio Penfold's an Australian wine grower. Working there had its highs and lows, though you ...
Advantages: Full complex flavours Disadvantages: Perhaps a little young,but well worth laying some down.
gradually grew and were a major producer by the 1920s, making mostly fortified wines and brandy. At the end of WW2 only 3% of Penfolds output was table wine, and the company?s growth into what it has become today stared with experimental plantings in the 1950s and continued through the 60s. This wine was first made in 1976.
This wine weighs in at 13.5% alcohol, which makes it a pretty hefty bruiser. I feel that the high alcohol content of a lot of New World wines is a retrograde step as every extra percent of alcohol takes away a much larger percentage of flavour and subtlety. Having said that, I feel that the CabernetShiraz blends stand up to this much better than some varietals. Some high strength Shiraz wines are really blowsy old tarts. The Cabernet Sauvignon gives a rather sterner structure, and much more decorum!
This is a wine I ...
Product Information for "Penfolds Koonunga Hill Shiraz / Cabernet 2005/06" »
Product details
Wine Label
Penfolds
Red Wine Type
Shiraz; Cabernet Sauvignon
Region
Australia
Bin Number
51822
Manufacturer's product description
A classic Penfolds blend based on select parcels of premium fruit. One year of ageing in French and American oak knits together the berry and plum fruit flavours in this brilliant wine and adds a rich and complex tarry, spicy, overlay. Great with red meats or mature cheese.
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