5 Stars by critic James Halliday.

In the mid-1980s John Parker identified the suitable locations on Coonawarra's Terra Rossa strip, which resulted in the purchase of land just north of Penola. The vineyard was planted with Reynella Selection Cabernet Sauvignon – original cuttings on non-resistant rootstock, sourced from Bordeaux in the early 1800s before phylloxera decimated France.