Penfolds - Magill Estate 2020

Jeni Port, Winepilot

Tyson Stelzer

Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion

Ray Jordan

Ken Gargett

James Suckling

This has a very rich and intense nose, with mulberries, red plums, blackberries and iodine, as well as wet dark stones, espresso and violets. The palate holds a very plush, smoothly polished and quite linear shape, bathed in ripe blackberry and plum fruit flavors. So long and polished. Single vineyard. Drink over the next decade or more.

Decanter Magazine

Bright blueberries and mulberry define the personality of this slim beauty, its flavour notes seeming to ring longer than previous Magill Estate models, largely due to its clean, true palate line. Tannins sit in balance with a firm acid backbone to carry the more restrained fruit flavours that sing sweetly, yet with a tart finishing comment. Beguiling, but one wonders what personality it will show after time in the cellar. Released at A$150/bottle.

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

Every year I smell lavender in this glass, and I promptly forget, until the following year. So today, as I smell the 2020 Magill Estate Shiraz, I smell lavender, and it lifts the aromatic profile—Earl Grey tea, Chinese five spice, black fruit and graphite through the finish. This is a supremely elegant wine, a single-vineyard wine (the only one in the 2022 Collection). Open fermenters, basket pressed and barrel fermented. It's all done in situ at Magill. I love this wine; it has powdery tannins, pliable fruit and curvy shape. Gorgeous. Irresistible.

The Wine Front

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