"Koonunga Hill" is an intense wine of South Australia, produced from the grapes Shiraz and Cabernet. The scents start with berried fruits and finish with spicy and toasted notes. It's an harmonic wine, full
- bodied and with big structure.
- SHIRAZ CABERNET 'KOONUNGA HILL 76' PENFOLDS 2021 DESCRIPTION
- The Shiraz Cabernet 'Koonunga Hill 76' by Penfolds is a label born in 2006, with the desire to pay homage to a wine from the cellar, the "Claret", which had achieved great success in 1976. Thirty years later, we wanted to give new life to a refined wine, which today asserts itself with an interesting dimension both on the nose and on the palate, designing a complexity of aromas and flavours that promises to increase its scope over the course of the years. years. Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon come together in a bottle of excellent workmanship.
- The Penfolds “Koonunga Hill 76” is a Shiraz Cabernet which, as is easy to imagine, is assembled starting from these two vines, grown on various parcels of property located in the Barossa Valley. The bunches are carefully selected during the harvest, and are immediately transferred to the winemaking premises, where they are destemmed. The must ferments in stainless steel containers, and for the final part of the refinement the wine is transferred to both French and American oak barrels for 10 months, at the end of which it is ready to be bottled.
- The Shiraz Cabernet “Koonunga Hill 76” signed by the renowned Australian winery Penfolds announces itself in the glass with an intense ruby red color, with good concentration. The small berries peep out on the nose enriching themselves with spicy references and more chocolatey touches. On the palate it is medium bodied, with a tasty sip that envelops the palate with roundness, thanks to a finely polished tannic texture, which delicately embraces the drink. It closes with a finish with good persistence. A red from South Australia, perfect to try when you want a label that demonstrates the progress made in viticulture in the New World in recent decades.
- Colour
- Deep red
- Scent
- Notes of berries, vanilla , coffee and chocolate
- Taste
- Intense harmony balanced on good tannins and long persistence
