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CELLAR DWELLERS
Punters Corner
is participating in the Cellar Dwellers for all of July and showcasing the Sovereign in the Stars of the South along with
Majella, Hollick, Parker, Yalumba and Balnaves. Participants will have the chance to win an iconic 6 pack if they taste at each of the wineries and fill in the special card which is available at the cellar doors.

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 - 2008 Wine Companion
This year Punters Corner received a Red 5 Star rating, a new category meaning that it is an outstanding winery regularly producing wines of exemplary quality and typicity. Only around 6.5% of the wineries in the Wine Companion recieve this rating.
Sovereign Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 Strong, deep colour; considerably more texture, structure and concentration than the standard varietal version; a very long palate built around the blackcurrant fruit and balance tannins. A triumph for the vintage.
Rating 96 To 2026
Coonawarra Shiraz 2004 Excellent varietal character and mouthfeel; spice, licorice and blackberry fruit; very good tannin structure; a favourite at long odds.
Rating 95 To 2019
Single Vineyard Coonawarra Chardonnay 2005 Pale straw-green; sophisticated winemaking, the complex barrel ferment and maturation not compromising the dominance of the chardonnay varietal fruit; has good length and intensity.
Rating 94 To 2012
Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon 2004 Lots of juicy black fruit flavours; good balance and length provided by tannin and oak support.
Rating 94 To 2021
Triple Crown 2004 Strong hue; powerful line and structure to the dark fruit flavours, with a briary/savoury undertaste; not quite the same silky smoothness of most Punters Corner wines.
Rating 91 To 2024

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".

HAYLEY MUIR: Hayley began
work with us at the beginning of October 2005 as our new Marketing Manager
in the Melbourne office. Hayley has a degree in Graphic Design and
has worked in the design industry in both Melbourne and London for
the past eight years. She has won several industry awards for her
work. She is looking forward to producing some long overdue promotional
material and will be taking part in the Everwise wine tours to Hong
Kong and China. Please contact Hayley on 03 9670 7900
for any marketing queries.

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.
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