Penny's Hill McLaren Vale Shiraz 2012

A true reflection of its terroir, this wine shows perfume and spice, coupled with vibrant red cherry and blue berry fruits and underlying notes of milk chocolate and anise. Subtle oak spice plays a supporting role and adds a layered complexity. The palate has a high level of fruit intensity, showing depth and concentration. This tightly structured wine has great finesse, purity and elegance; its fine tannins have focus, direction and length to charm.

This red wine from McLaren Vale is a deliberately long-aged expression of the cumulative best of our McLaren Vale vineyard site, 'Skeleton Key’ is cellared and carefully bottle aged before it is unlocked.

"Open-fermented and matured in oak for 22 months. Deep crimson-purple, still in the first flush of youth; a concentrated, no-holds-barred shiraz shouting its region and variety from the rooftops; full of jet black fruits, dripping with dark chocolate, it has remarkable balance thanks in no small measure to its oak and tannin inputs. Drink by 2045. James Halliday - Australian Wine Companion
96 points"