Sandalford 2005Prendiville (although it sounds like a character in an Oscar Wilde play) is a selection of the top 40 barrels of cabernet from Sandalford’s 1970 Wilyabrup plantings. It is, therefore, roughly a make of about 500 dozen. Prendiville my dear boy..

I was working on the proof of one of my notes all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Beautifully aromatic with the perfume of violets, dark fruit, mulberries, gum leaf, wet cement and fine pencilly oak. On the palate medium to full bodied with flavours of mulberry, violet and that typical (and very attractive) regional wet earth character. Perfectly ripe fruit with just the right amount of leafiness adding Cabernet complexity. It is fine and long through the palate with ripe gravelly tannin and feels fresh and lively throughout. Top end. Perhaps one of the best things I can say of this is that it’s worth the asking price. It’s so well balanced that drinking it now offers great pleasure, although the best is yet to come.

Rated : 95+ Points
Tasted : Feb08
Alcohol : 14.5%
Price : $89
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2014 - 2025
Source : Winery Sample
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