WORLD OF FINE WINE MAGAZINE

World of Fine Wine magazine is organising a tasting, analyzing the expression of terroir in Bordeaux-blend and Cabernet wines from Margaret River, Coonawarra and Wrattonbully. The tasting will feature around 30 wines and will be led by Andrew Jefford and attended by Anthony Rose and one other member of the World of Fine Wine tasting panel. It will be held at their offices in London on 21 April 2010 and will be published in an upcoming issue of World of Fine Wine.

LIMESTONE COAST WINE SHOW

Punters Corner received several medals and one TROPHY this year. Our 2007 Chardonnay received a TROPHY for Best Individual Vineyard Wine. Our 2005 Spartacus Reserve Shiraz and 2007 Chardonnay both received GOLD. For a full list of Punters Corner awards, click here.

SOVEREIGN WINS GOLD

The 2005 & 2006 Sovereign Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon have both received GOLD at the Winewise Small Vigneron Awards. For a full listing of the awards, please click here.

HYATT/ADVERTISER WINE OF THE YEAR

Punters Corner came Runners Up in the Consumer Section with the 2004 Sovereign Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon.

Here are the results from the latest round of awards:

Winewise Show 2007
2005  Sovereign Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Gold
2004  Cabernet Sauvignon Silver
2005  Cabernet Sauvignon Silver
2004  Sovereign Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Silver
 
Melbourne Wine Show  2007
2005  Cabernet Sauvignon Bronze
2005  Sovereign  Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon Bronze
2004  Cabernet Sauvignon Bronze

James Halliday - 2009 Wine Companion

Once again, Punters Corner received a 5 Star rating, which puts us in the top 12.5% of wineries in Australia.

Sovereign Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 Mocha and blackcurrant aromas; complex and a touch of mint on the palate; very long, and quite fleshy on the finish.

Rating 94  To 2016

Spartacus Reserve Shiraz 2005 Rich black fruits with plenty of depth and length; balanced oak and tannins.

Rating 94  To 2018

Coonawarra Shiraz 2005 Lively fruits, ranging from red cherry and plum through to blackberry; has freshness and elegance.

Rating 90  To 2015

Single Vineyard Coonawarra Chardonnay 2006 A rich and ripe bouquet with melon and fig; good flavour on the palate with oak evident on the finish.

Rating 90  To 2012

Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 A powerful, medium-to-full-bodied palate, with a mix of dusty and riper blackcurant fruits supported by positive oak.

Rating 92  To 2018

Triple Crown 2005 A light-to-medium-bodied palate, with a lively mix of red fruits, mint and leaf; fine tannins; early maturing style.

Rating 88   To 2012

PUNTERS CORNER WINS GOLD AT WINEWISE WINE SHOW: The Punters Corner 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon and the 2003 Spartacus Reserve Shiraz received Gold at the Winewise Wine Show. The 2004 Sovereign Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon also won Silver. A full list of our awards can be viewed on our Awards Page.

BARREL SERIES: Punters Corner Wines 2004 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon Barrel sold for an amazing $33,198.75 at the 9th Annual Barrel Series Auction on Sunday 16th October 2005.  The price was not only the highest paid on the day (the runner up being $24,118.75) but also becomes the record price ever paid for a barrel since the Barrel Series auctions commenced in 1997.

Once bottling and packaging have been finalised, 10 cases of the wine will be headed to Melbourne and the other 10 cases to Queensland.  Tim White from the Financial Review described the wine as "Dark and fruitcakey smell, cedary with flake tobacco, ultra slick tangy currants, very Coonawarra.  Long and mouth watering to close 94/100.  Campbell Mattinson from the Winefront Monthly said "Distinguished, distinctive, a rock in its own place.  Soy, salt, blackcurrant and lead - fascinatingly perfumed - it carves through your mouth like a tannin master, leaving fruit and acid in its wake.  A polarising style, I suspect. I like it 90/100".  The wine was made by contract winemaker Peter Bissell who recently won the Qantas/Gourmet Traveller WINE, Winemaker of the Year Award.

PETER BISSELL: was described as a 'winemaking magician' by Andrew Caillard MW when he took out the title of the Qantas/Gourmet Traveller WINE 2005 Winemaker of the year "he belongs to an enlightened movement of winemakers who see Coonawarra as an intricate palette of regional colour".

TOP 100 WINES: Punters Corner 2002 Spartacus Reserve Shiraz was awarded a Gold Medal and a Blue Gold Medal in the Sydney International Wine Show. The wine was selected in the TOP 100 Wines in the wineshow where 2000 wines from 13 differenct countries around the world were tasted. This now places the Spartacus in a truly international wine market.

HALLIDAY'S TOP 100: Punters Corner Spartacus 2002 Reserve Shiraz was selected in James Halliday's TOP 100 wines in the Weekend Australian on November 20th 2004. James Halliday said "This year's has been the most memorable of all Top 100 tastings.  The high point was the 2002 vintage, which right across southeast Australia produced superb red wines in seemingly endless volumes"  The Spartacus was rated 96points  and James Halliday said of the wine 'While the 2002 vintage was good in Coonawarra, it was better elsewhere in South Australia, but you wouldn't know that looking at this wine.  Deeply coloured, the potent, penetrating bouquet leads into lusciously abundant mid-palate blackberry and spice, balanced by fine tannins and faintly smoky oak on the finish.