Punter’s Corner is a relative newcomer to the Coonawarra pantheon. Although operations commenced in 1988, a winery wasn’t developed until 1996. In 2000, things really started to happen for the Punter’s Corner team when the 1999 Reserve Spartacus Shiraz was awarded the Jimmy Watson Trophy. Nevertheless, Punter’s Corner continues to fly under the radar somewhat.
Today, the vineyards are managed by Peter Balnaves and the wines are made by Peter Bissell, both from the neighbouring Balnaves winery. The wines are very much traditional Coonawarra, albeit with richly intense fruit, and polished new oak, in this case, French, American and Russian.
Although the label design does Punter’s Corner no favours whatsoever, the wines itself do deliver. The 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon is a powerful Cabernet, just taking on a touch of secondary complexity in the form of tobacco and baked red earth. It’s a dry and food friendly wine, one that would work with rack of Tatiara lamb.
2001 CABERNET SAUVIGNON
Producer: Punter’s Corner
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon et al
Vintage: 2001
Region: Coonawarra, South Australia
ABV: 13.0%
Price: N/a
Closure: Natural cork
Format: 750ml
Date tasted: 13 October 2011
Tasting Note:
Bold nose of cedar, baked red earth, cherries and tobacco – a complex bouquet that belies the rather cheap looking label. Dry, medium bodied and very savoury palate displaying of plums and dark cherries married with dusty, cedary oak. There’s a large amount of dry extract here, perhaps a bit too much, but it delivers pretty well for a relatively inexpensive wine.
Score: 16/20
Today, the vineyards are managed by Peter Balnaves and the wines are made by Peter Bissell, both from the neighbouring Balnaves winery. The wines are very much traditional Coonawarra, albeit with richly intense fruit, and polished new oak, in this case, French, American and Russian.
Although the label design does Punter’s Corner no favours whatsoever, the wines itself do deliver. The 2001 Cabernet Sauvignon is a powerful Cabernet, just taking on a touch of secondary complexity in the form of tobacco and baked red earth. It’s a dry and food friendly wine, one that would work with rack of Tatiara lamb.
2001 CABERNET SAUVIGNONProducer: Punter’s Corner
Variety: Cabernet Sauvignon et al
Vintage: 2001
Region: Coonawarra, South Australia
ABV: 13.0%
Price: N/a
Closure: Natural cork
Format: 750ml
Date tasted: 13 October 2011
Tasting Note:
Bold nose of cedar, baked red earth, cherries and tobacco – a complex bouquet that belies the rather cheap looking label. Dry, medium bodied and very savoury palate displaying of plums and dark cherries married with dusty, cedary oak. There’s a large amount of dry extract here, perhaps a bit too much, but it delivers pretty well for a relatively inexpensive wine.
Score: 16/20
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