Parker First Growth 2021

Written By Campbell Mattinson
Mattinson review of Parker Estate First Growth 2021

Parker First Growth 2021
$110, 14.5% alcohol, screwcap, Coonawarra.

It’s not overdone. It’s powerful, svelte, long through the finish, tannic and complex, with cabernet’s trademark tobacco, olive and dried herb characters threaded artfully through boysenberry, red licorice and blackcurrant fruit flavours. It feels classy but it also feels balanced and measured, as all the best wines do, the sustained length of the finish the final confirmation that we’re in excellent territory. Cedarwood oak too has melted almost entirely into the fruit; always a good sign. 94+ points.

Campbell Mattinson

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.

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