MDMTappanappa Whalebone Vineyard & Penley Estate Helios Upgrade 6 pack
Dry, Full Bodied style of Cabernet and Cabernet Blend
About this product
Dry, Full Bodied style of Cabernet and Cabernet Blend
- TypeCabernet and Cabernet Blend
- Size750mL
- Current Vintage2020
- Standard Drinks7.7
- Alcohol Volume14.5%
- CountryAustralia
- StateSouth Australia
- Brand NameMDM
- Wine MakerVarious
- ClosureCork
- Wine SweetnessDry
- Wine BodyFull Bodied
- More about Campbell Mattinson
Campbell Mattinson
Award winning Australian wine reviewer for Wine Companion and winefront.com.au
Vintage 2020
95 points The Wine Front
Penley Estate Helios 2020 Wow the swagger on this wine. This is a powerhouse in the most measured of ways. It’s complex with blackcurrant, cedarwood, bay leaf, tomato and sweet redcurrant but it presents ‘as one’ and the finish, golly, it’s just so lengthy and so wonderfully rippled with tannin. This is a great option for the cellar. It’s tannic, powerful, complex and long, and it’s balanced with it.
Vintage 2020
97 points Halliday Wine Companion 2022
Erin Larkin Wine Companion: Small batches of the best parcels of fruit, matured separately in French oak for 18 months (30% new). Blackberry pie on the nose, this is concentrated and pure in its expression of both Coonawarra (black fruit, eucalyptus and ferrous) and exotic spice. On the palate the tannins are pronounced, and they certainly impact the fruit, but it is clear from the sheer volume of flavour that swells in the mouth that they will be no match in time. They will recede into the tidal wave of flavour and serve only to carry and guide the fruit through the finish, as Helios' chariot drove him across the sky. Inchoate as this is, it will emerge a superstar. 97pts
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