Parker Estate First Growth 2020

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Shanteh Wale - Halliday's Wine Companion

From the Parker Estate Abbey vineyard; 12 days fermentation and 28 days on skins, 80% new oak for 18 months. Bewitching from start to finish. A mix of ripe boysenberry, pomegranate molasses and rooibos tea. Sweet paprika, ochre earth and morello cherries. Cumin, caraway seed and roasted arabica beans. Vanillin and mocha tones give way to maple and blackened grass tree trunk. Sweet cherry pit and carob on the palate; the acidity lingers in wisps. Flavours idle for an age after you’ve put the glass down. Granular tannins. This is showing its style but has a long way to evolve. What a wine!