Parker Estate 95 Block 2020
- 93
- $65
- Drink by: 2025-2040
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Mostly Cabernet Sauvignon with just a splash (9%) of Petit Verdot, this wine sings “Coonawarra” from the first sniff. The characteristic choc-mint is there but joined by a complexing green peppercorn spice. Classic blackcurrant fruit dances with ripe blood plums and the earthy richness of roasted eggplant. Premium oak adds pouch tobacco and cedar aromas. There’s elegance on the palate with the interplay of fruit and herbaceous characters backed up by savoury, gravelly tannins and a rocky salinity with bright acidity. There’s a lot of complexity here in a young wine and it promises to age beautifully.
Nicole loves wine. So much so that she gave up a successful career in Pharmacy, perfected her spitting technique, and moved from sunny Queensland to the wine-drenched laneways of Melbourne. Stints in hospitality, wineries, retail, sales and marketing filled the next few years while Nicole built her knowledge and searched for the right path. She completed the Wine and Spirits Education Trust (WSET) Diploma in 2016 and became a certified WSET Educator the following year. She now juggles a number of roles including teaching people about wine, curating wines lists for restaurants and bars, judging in Australian wine shows and, of course, writing. In 2016 she won the Negociants Working With Wine writing award and has since contributed to Gourmet Traveller WINE, Halliday Wine Companion Magazine and Nourish Magazine.
