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Petaluma Coonawarra Cabernet Merlot 2007 Fabulous wine - concentration and deliciousness and terrific length. Violets, blackcurrent and blackberry with oak that tastes of expresso and vanilla. Has density without weight and excellent flavour. In the mould of of the 2005. Top end wine, no question. Drink 2017-2027. 96 points The Big Red Wine Book, Campbell Mattinson & Gary Walsh This is an amazing wine, up there with the 90, 96 and 99 in terms of sheer quality. One of the great Petaluma Coonawarra's. 96 points Anthony D'Anna Coonawarra lies on a large flat coastal plain, 230 miles (370km) south of Adelaide and 35 miles (56km) from the Great Southern Ocean to the southwest. Petaluma has two vineyards in the region, in its Sharefarmers and Evans vineyards. Due to heat summation, Coonawarra is ideally suited to the Bordeaux varieties and is one of the world’s greatest Cabernet Sauvignon regions with wines having uniquely fine-grained tannins. The climate is dominated by the cool winds from the ocean and is moderately maritime despite being influenced by the hot air of the flat plains to the north during summer. The fabulous Terra Rossa red soil family of the Coonawarra ridge has been formed on an ancient sand dune. The calcrete limestone deposit below the Terra Rossa soil was formed by the action of rain on calcium carbonate marine deposits during the soil genesis.