Penfolds The Max Schubert Cabernet Shiraz 2012

Penfolds The Max Schubert Cabernet Shiraz 2012James Halliday Top 100 Wines of 2015 Max Schubert was the Chief Winemaker for Penfolds between 1948 to 1975 and the architect behind Penfolds Bin 95 Grange, Australia's most famous wine. To mark the centenary of Schubert's birth and to celebrate his enormous legacy and contribution to the brand, Penfolds have released a new range of wines as a tribute to the great winemaker. One of these wines is the 2012 The Max Schubert Cabernet Shiraz, a blend of

For all its reserve

these were allowed to start naturally on full solids

I need to keep the vines alive

Gnadenberg roughly translates as 'Hill of Grace'

continue to develop with further bottle ageing

but we didn’t see it transform the wines until around 2017

structure and mouthfeel

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scented nose leads into an impeccably balanced wine that is full of blackberry and plum fruit with delicious chocolate overtones

the evenness of flowering and veraison

Vigourous with plenty of density and persistency

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