Penfolds Super Premiums Released
Penfolds Super Premiums reds are released on 1 May each year and to co-incide with this year's releases I've decided to do something different. I've tasted and thought through the wines and then done the almost unimaginable thing of talking my thoughts through on camera. There's a seven minute introduction and then a separate take on each of 2003 Penfolds Grange, 2005 Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon, 2004 Penfolds St Henri Shiraz, 2005 Penfolds RWT Shiraz and 2005 Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz. In the subscriber only 'Latest Reviews' section of this website I will of course record written reviews of these wines, but if you want to hear me talk on these wines all you have to do is click on the following links.
Part 1: Penfolds Super Premium Red Wines Introduction (including review of 2005 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon). CLICK HERE.
Part 2: Review of Penfolds Grange 2003. CLICK HERE.
Part 3: Review of Penfolds RWT Shiraz 2005. CLICK HERE.
Part 4: Review of Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz 2005. CLICK HERE.
Part 5: Review of Penfolds St Henri Shiraz 2004. CLICK HERE.
Part 6: Summary of Penfolds Super Premium Red Releases. CLICK HERE.
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Nice review of the current SP Penfolds lineup, the St.Henri sounds pretty special.
Quick question, I purchased The Red Album and was wondering what the difference is between this and your new Big Red Wine book? Is the new book an updated version of the Red Album? Or does it contain additional information/articles pertaining to all things red? Thanks.
cheers
Anthony
The two books are very different - and not just because this one is a year later. The Red Album was simply a collection of all red wines reviews published in The Wine Front over the preceding five years. It wasn't sold to anyone other than to subscribers to Winefront (i.e. no bookstore sales) and importantly it made no attempt to cater for the release of upcoming wines - it simply recorded the reviews of the past. The Big Red Wine Book is not in any way a "second" or re-named version of the Red Album. The Big Red Wine Book is all about current red wine reviews and reviews of red wines due to be released over the next six or so months. It's a lot like, say, a Penguin Guide for red wines ... though of course this has nothing to do with Penguin and is its own beast. But hopefully this gives you an idea.
The best way to see what I'm saying is by taking a look at it in a bookstore. The difference of this book is quite clear when you see the book itself. It's a completely new offering.
Hope that's of some help.
cheers,
Campbell.
It is officially released tomorrow but I was at an airport earlier today and saw it at a newsagent/bookstore, so it's getting out there. It should be on general sale at bookstores widely. Let me know if you have any problems finding it.
cheers Josh,
Campbell.
Thanks ps. An alcohol reading would be easy enough to add - if the book is done again next year, I'll work on it. Cheers!
Campbell.
Also, a mention of the seal might be nice - or make the most numerous seal the default and name the non-conformists.
Very much like the one-line summaries of older vintages too.
Graeme
I don't know that I've ever sat in on a vertical of Vat 9. Might be something worth arranging.
Re: alcohols - isn't it great that there are moves afoot to change the 1.5% tolerance rule. Considering that wine producers have to declare "traces of egg" etc, it's absurd in the extreme that such a tolerance still exists on alcohol readings.
Campbell.