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.