Since its first release in 1988, the name Parker Coonawarra has represented outstanding quality, longevity and elegance from the region. Based in the very southern end of the Terra Rossa strip, the wines have always embodied a fine, long-lived, classic style. The Hesketh family became the custodians of the vision for Parker in 2013, and have continued with these ideals. The wines offer an exceptional insight into why the Coonawarra region became famous for powerful yet delicious cabernet. This includes a Langton's classification for the flagship First Growth bottling.

Parker Coonawarra Estate First Growth 2020
Quite classic Coonawarra aromas of cassis, black cherry, cedar, pencil shavings, eucalyptus and a lift of ferrous earth. Firm, structured and built for the long haul. Flavours are in the dark fruit zone, along with spice and a leafy mintiness. The tannins are chalky and serious and the length is impressive. A wine to cellar
Rating: 95 Points, 5 Stars
Source: Aaron Brasher, The Real Review

Parker Coonawarra Estate First Growth 2020
Medium-deep crimson. Intense blackcurrant, cedar tomato leaf, with hint capsicum notes. Well balanced wine with blackcurrant, mulberry fruits, cedary tannins, lovely inky density, some light vanilla, marzipan notes and fresh long crisp acidity. Still in parts, but a throwback to the 1980s. Now-2045. 14.5%
Rating; 93+
Source: Andrew Caillard MW, Winepilot.com

Parker Coonawarra Estate First Growth 2020
Blackcurrant, redcurrant, quite leafy with a chopped red capsicum spiciness, mint leaf, and ginger biscuit oak. It’s medium-bodied, quite developed and squishy fruited, though it does have a sort of charming herbal, leafy and sweet-fruited sense of decay, some tomato consommé flavour too. Don’t mind me, but this kind of harks back to Coonawarra Cabernet of decades back. Some grainy tannin offers grip on a finish of solid length. Curious wine, yet I quite like it.
Rating: 91 Points
Source: Gary Walsh, The Wine Front

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