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    76
  • Decanting time

    4h
  • When to drink

    2020-2035
  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

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Vintage 2018

 Qualité très prometteuse avec les commentateurs les plus optimistes déclarant 2018 grande dans chaque région et pour chaque variété. L’opinion la plus circonspecte est que les gelées précoces ont réduit les rendements, mais que le temps beau et constant tout au long de la seconde moitié de la saison de croissance a effectivement entraîné un grand potentiel.

Barossa millésime 2018 à savourer

Le millésime Barossa 2018 s’est achevé fin avril 2018, avec des viticulteurs et des vignerons satisfaits d’un millésime de grande qualité et de bons rendements.

« Les saveurs et les couleurs des rouges sont merveilleuses, et les acides naturels dans les blancs de l’Eden Valley étonnamment élevés, avec des variétés précoces cette année, notamment le Riesling, le Chardonnay, le Shiraz, le Grenache et le Cabernet », a déclaré Louisa Rose, responsable de la vinification à Yalumba.

La saison de croissance a bien commencé, avec des précipitations d’hiver 2017 supérieures d’environ 10% à la moyenne. Cependant, les précipitations printanières n’ont été que de 78% de la moyenne dans la vallée de Barossa (BV) et de 98% dans la vallée d’Eden (EV), et les précipitations de décembre n’ont été que de 57% de la moyenne en BV (88% en EV).

Des sols plus secs, combinés à des journées d’octobre et de novembre plus chaudes que la moyenne (octobre 2ºC au-dessus de la moyenne en VB (1,8 ºC en EV) et novembre 1,1ºC au-dessus de la moyenne en BV (1,6 ºC en EV), ont permis aux canopées de vigne de croître rapidement, de bien fleurir et de nouer un bon nombre de grappes.

Janvier et février ont été chauds et secs, avec des températures très chaudes en février ralentissant le rythme de maturation. Janvier a été légèrement au-dessus de la moyenne (1,4 ° C pendant la journée mais plus proche de la moyenne la nuit) et février a été à peu près moyen pendant la journée, mais avec des températures nocturnes nettement plus chaudes que la moyenne dans la vallée de Barossa (5,8 ° C plus chaud).

Avec des précipitations estivales de 50 % de la moyenne, les producteurs ayant accès à l’eau, à la surveillance de l’humidité du sol, à une bonne gestion de l’irrigation et à des sols sains ont subi moins de stress – et ont par la suite livré des fruits sains et des rendements constants.

L’été indien de mars et début avril a été « la cerise sur le gâteau », avec des températures moyennes, sans extrêmes, parfaites pour terminer le millésime. Les 28 à 30 mm de pluie des 14 et 15 avril n’ont pas causé de problèmes majeurs pour la cueillette – et ont été un arrosage post-récolte bienvenu pour la plupart des producteurs de Barossa.

Dans l’ensemble, en 2018, Barossa Valley a concassé 56 970 tonnes*, en baisse de 22 % par rapport au millésime 2017, mais de 9 % par rapport à la moyenne quinquennale. En 2018, Eden Valley a concassé 11 593 tonnes*, en baisse de 3 % par rapport à 2017.

La trituration totale de Barossa de 68 563 tonnes* a représenté 9 % du volume total et 25 % de la valeur totale de la trituration en Australie-Méridionale.

Les prix moyens des variétés de la vallée de Barossa sont restés stables en 2018, Shiraz s’établissant à 2252 dollars la tonne, soit une baisse de 1% par rapport à l’année dernière. À Eden Valley, le prix moyen du Shiraz a augmenté de 11% à 2636 $ la tonne et le Cabernet Sauvignon a augmenté de 15% à 2354 $.

*Wine Australia estime que le taux de réponse à la trituration des raisins de cuve en Afrique du Sud est de 85 %, de sorte que le trituration total réel de Barossa est estimé entre 75 000 et 80 000 tonnes.

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The two wines are the 802.A Cabernet Shiraz 2018 (AUD$900; AUD$2,250 for magnum) and the 802.B Cabernet Shiraz 2018 (price TBC; to be released August 2022).

Both are the traditional Aussie red – Cabernet Shiraz – and Penfolds kindly unveiled the wines at the release for a world first tasting. They are in very heavy bottles with huge punts, both sealed under cork. “A” is 1,400 cases while “B” is a little more generous with 5,000 cases.

The Penfolds 802.A Cabernet Shiraz 2018 is a very fine wine but there was too much oak for me. 93.

  • 93p

Penfolds 802-A Superblend 2018 / Not made in 2019 and 2020. Made to celebrate Cabernet/Shiraz blends. Makes use of the A1-grade fruit that isn't suitable for Grange, similarly to Quantum – so that top-end grower fruit has more options. Cabernet and Shiraz matured separately for 18 months, then blended. Matured 22 months in American oak.
Black fruit, lots of floral perfume – really quite different to the 389 style, and perhaps less typically Penfolds. Still delicious with black cherry, rounded tannins, a touch of tarmac – this is almost Piedmont in aromatic profile. A little less integrated than the 802-B. (RH)

  • 91p

Inky ruby. A slow-to-open bouquet displays powerful dark berry, cherry-cola, pipe tobacco and savory herb qualities that are complemented by oak spice and coconut accents. Densely packed bitter cherry, mocha, black cardamom and fruitcake flavors show superb depth as well as energy thanks to a core of juicy acidity. Turns smokier on the strikingly long finish, which emphatically echoes the floral and cola notes. Conveys a compelling expression of sweet and savory components and finishes extremely long and youthfully tannic. Made in all new American oak.

  • 96p

Deep Crimson. Beautiful wine with lifted blackcurrant, blackberry, mulberry, dark chocolate mocha aromas and herb garden/ chinotto notes. Inky textured and richly concentrated wine with deep set cassis, black berry fruits, hints of chinotto, plentiful fine-grained/ vigorous tannins, attractive mid-palate viscosity and superb integrated mocha malt oak notes. Finishes firm and minerally with a lovely fine chocolaty plume. Harks back to the experimental age. Aged for 22 months in 100% Australian-coopered American oak hogsheads. Lovely classic Penfolds wine. 68% cabernet sauvignon 32% shiraz. Drink 2023 -2035+ 14.5% Alc 97 points

  • 97p

68% cabernet sauvignon, 32% shiraz.

Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, Wrattonbully, Robe, Clare Valley. 22 months in American oak hogsheads (100% new). 1400 cases (9LE).

Savoury and not as intense or concentrated as the big bois in the rest of the collection this year. Kind of supple actually…. The tannins are wild and bordering on woolly… loose knit, seductive etc.

Available August 5th in two size formats, 750ml and 1.5L (RRP $2,250). In November 2021, 802.A will be available alongside a limited-edition decanter.

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Magill, South Australia

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