Penfolds Bin 2 Shiraz Mataro 2017

Colour: Deep Red

Nose: Mediterranean notes of savoury ratatouille, sundried tomato, olive tapenade, Moroccan spices and charcoal roasted roast game. 

Balancing the savoury notes are aromatic blueberries, exotic red fruits, perfumed cranberry and fresh pomegranate.

Palate:

A delightfully complex amalgam of savoury green olives, pepperoni with a hint of sweet/salty Dutch liquorice. 

Soft blue fruits to the fore with textured tannins providing grip.

An expansive palate gives this wine generosity and presence.

Grape Varities: Shiraz & Mataro

Area: South Austrailia 

Tasting: Dry

Food: chickenbreast with mediterranian spices, rosemary polenta, tomato ragout

Drinking temperature: 16-18°C

Maturation: Eight months in French oak (10% new) and American oak hogsheads.

Alc.: 14,5% vol. 

Acidity: 6,4g/l

pH: 3,61

Awards & Ratings: 

93 Points - Andrew Caillard MW

92 Points - Campbell Mattinson

Allergy information: Contains Sulfites

Producer: 

58 Queensbridge Street

Southbank 

VIC 3006 

Australia

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Penfolds Max`s Shiraz Cabernet 2016

Colour: Crimson core with magenta brightness at the rim.

Nose: A bluestone slatiness and waft of iron filings immediately captures attention, a Cabernet influence/lift perhaps?

Almond cake sweetness and white chocolate create a web with boysenberry and blue fruit aromatics. 

Palate:

Structural grip and defined tannins wraps around a palate full of blueberry and mulberry brightness.

Black olive and brine-like Nori savouriness add an extra dimension so that fruit doesn’t stand alone.

Grape Varities: 77% Shiraz and 23% Cabernet Sauvignon.

Area: South Austrailia 

Tasting: Dry

Food: chickenbreast with mediterranian spices, rosemary polenta, tomato ragout

Drinking temperature: 16-18°C

Origin: Multi-regional blend, South Australia. From McLaren Vale, Wrattonbully, Padthaway, Langhorne Creek and Barossa Valley..

Maturation: 12 months in new American oak (6% ) and new French oak (2%) with the balance in seasoned French and American oak.

When to Drink: Drinking well, but will improve with time. Peak drinking window now - 2028. 

Alc.: 14% vol. 

Allergy information: Contains Sulfites

Producer: 

58 Queensbridge Street

Southbank 

VIC 3006 

Australia

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Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz 2016

Bin 28 offers a showcase of warm climate Australian shiraz – ripe, robust and generously flavoured. First made in 1959, Bin 28 is named after the famous Barossa Valley Kalimna vineyard purchased by Penfolds in 1945 and from which the wine was originally sourced.

Today, Bin 28 is a multi-region, multi-vineyard blend, with the Barossa Valley always well represented. 

Colour: Vibrant, dense plum red, red edges.

Nose: A black Kalamata olive tapenade as a first impression, beneath an overlay of camphor and tobacco.

How to say this politely? Boot polish, bitumen, cola, granite … darkened style/varietal base notes.

Yet blackberry conserve and sour cherry fill the (fruity) treble register.

Scents of cut straw/steel cut oats fill any aromatic chord gaps. 

Palate: Full-bodied. Substantial.

Framboise des bois (raspberry) with pips/vinegar – coulis or apothecary?

Meat? Closest association noted – raw/rare venison. Not to deny the welcomed presence of chocolate torte and mocha flavours.

A “cloaked” continuum of tannins that linger and reverberate with the discipline of a vinous pendulum.

Finishes intact with a flourish of dusty graphite (input of oak?) and balanced acidity.

Grape Varities: Shiraz

Area: South Austrailia 

Tasting: Dry

Drinking temperature: 16-18°C

Origin: Multi-regional blend, South Australia. From Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Padthaway, Upper Adelaide, and Wrattonbully.

Maturation: 12 months in seasoned American oak hogsheads.

Peak Drinking: 2022 – 2034

Awards & Ratings:

95 Points  - Andrew Caillard MW

95 Points  - Huon Hooke

Alc.: 14,5% vol. 

Acidtiy: 6,8g/l

pH: 3,64

Allergy information: Contains Sulfites

Producer: 

58 Queensbridge Street

Southbank 

VIC 3006 

Australia

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Penfolds Bin 138 Shiraz Grenache Mataro 2016

Bin 138 draws its inspiration from wines of Southern Rhône, where shiraz, grenache and mataro (mourvèdre) are blended in varying proportions to create full-bodied wines possessing rich and heady perfume.

Each year fruit for Bin 138 is sourced from Barossa Valley vines (some more than 100 years old) and then matured in seasoned oak hogsheads to allow the different varietals to shine through.

The first vintage release of this varietal blend was the 1992, labelled ‘Old Vine Barossa Valley’ – it was elevated to Bin status with the 1998 vintage. 

Wine makers Quotes:

“The 25th release of Bin 138 … originally titled Barossa Valley Old Vines Red.

At Penfolds not abbreviated to GSM (or SGM). Cellar code: RRP – Rhône (inspired) Red Penfolds.”

“True to its original blueprint – not subservient to oak/alcohol/artefact. Food friendly, drinking friendly.”

“Intensity of colour pre-empts what follows … wants for little. An old vine in soil needs water, this wine in glass needs air.”

Colour: Deep plum red

Nose:  Wading into the savoury spectrum, albeit ‘spliced with spice’ – cinnamon, ginger and boiled-fruitcake ‘all-spice’. Extending this theme – reminiscent of a sniff of the (succulent) redcurrants adorning a Christmas cake.

Less obvious, dates and dried fig.

And for that matter, the lift incurred upon custard poured over aforementioned Christmas cake (brandy soaked?). Barossa shiraz, grenache and mataro – in 2016 hard to distinguish what comes from what! Good fun trying. 

Palate: A relaxed Old World/Old Barossa disposition. Neither big nor brazen. Imminently drinkable.

Lush texture with supple, fanning tannins (possibly assisted by the blend’s 16% Grenache blend shareholding). Lachsschinken (salmon ham) flavours and an ironstone core. Oak?

“Sort of there, sort of not” repeated during tastings. Length, aftertaste? Imminently drinkable so initially difficult to gauge this potential attribute whilst sipping,

sorry tasting! Answer: Long and lingering. 

Grape Varities: 72% Shiraz, 16% Grenache, 12% Mataro

Area: Barossa Valley, South Australia

Tasting: Dry

Drinking temperature: 16-18°C

Origin: Multi-regional blend, South Australia. From Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Padthaway, Upper Adelaide, and Wrattonbully.

Maturation: 12 months in seasoned French and American oak

Peak Drinking: Now – 2030

Awards & Ratings:

95 Points  - Andrew Caillard MW

95 Points  - Huon Hooke

Alc.: 14,5% vol. 

Acidtiy: 6,5g/l

pH: 3,63

Awards & Ratings:

Wine Advocate: 91 Punkte JG 2015

Allergy information: Contains Sulfites

Producer: 

58 Queensbridge Street

Southbank 

VIC 3006 

Australia

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Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2016

Bin 389 is often referred to as ‘Baby Grange’, in part because components of the wine are matured in the same barrels

that held the previous vintage of Grange.

First made in 1960, by the legendary Max Schubert, this was the wine that helped to forge Penfolds solid reputation with red wine drinkers combining the structure of Cabernet Sauvignon with the richness of Shiraz. Bin 389 also exemplifies the judicious balance of fruit and oak.

Colour: Bright garnet.

Nose: An immediate ascent of scent – no need to wait or to vigorously swirl this wine to tease out ‘what lies beneath’!

Dark berry fruits consistent to both varietal persuasions, (cabernet and shiraz), overtly courted by elements of ponzu, soy,

sesame and dried shiitake mushroom.

Senses are easily conveyed to a forest after rain – wet bracken, liberated mulch, damp soils.

Naturally (new and used) oak plays a (minor) role in this fanciful aromatic romp.

Palate: 

Flavours and textures akin to marbled Kobe beef and an earthy accompaniment of black liquorice root and anise.

Structurally bold with little protruding – integrated, fine … and has comfortably already “settled into place”.

‘Appetising’ acidity – a non-intrusive and refreshing granita-like bite/attaque.

Assam tea maltiness and tannins merge with impressions of wet slate, pencil lead/graphite …

no doubt somehow linked to earlier partial barrel fermentation and oak maturation.

Needs time, as per most Bin 389’s at release. Perhaps a little longer for this vintage? Our recommendation – your choice

Grape Varities: 51% Cabernet Sauvignon, 49% Shiraz.

Area: Barossa Valley, South Australia

Tasting: Dry

Drinking temperature: 16-18°C

Origin: Multi-regional blend, South Australia. From Barossa Valley, Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Padthaway and Wrattonbully.

Maturation: 12 months in American oak hogsheads (37% new).

Peak Drinking: Drinking well now, but will improve with time. Peak drinking 2020 - 2046.

Awards & Ratings:

96 Points - Campbell Mattinson

96 Points - Huon Hooke

95 Points - Andrew Caillard MW

95 Points - Tyson Stelzer

94 Points - Anthony Rose, Decanter 

18.5+ - Matthew Jukes

16.5+ - Jancis Robinson

Alc.: 14,5% vol. 

Acidtiy: 6,9g/l

pH: 3,64

Awards & Ratings:

Wine Advocate: 91 Punkte JG 2015

Allergy information: Contains Sulfites

Producer: 

58 Queensbridge Street

Southbank 

VIC 3006 

Australia

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Penfolds Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon 2016

Inspired by Bin 707, Bin 407 offers varietal definition and approachability, yet still with structure and depth of flavour.

Textbook Cabernet Sauvignon, the varietally expressive Bin 407 highlights the rewards of Penfolds multi-region, multi-vineyard blending,

with a core of ripe fruit supported by sensitive use of French and American oak.

Colour: Deep and prominent – solid red.

Nose: Where to start? So immediately true to variety. Punchy, not shy.

Beneath: Subtle forest floor earthiness, laced with liquorice, fennel and anise with a sceric of non-aggressive fresh spearmint.

Above: Sugar pastille wafts – somewhat reminiscent of the fruit bon bons of youth… more prescriptively/realistically – blackcurrant jelly bean.

In between: Summer pudding fruit generosity – suggestive of a cherry clafoutis? Or maybe a fleshy red cherry trifle, avec sponge cake? Yes please.

Absorbed: Stylish/coiffured oak … want to say classy, but might sound pretentious? Next time. 

Palate: 

Bountiful red cabernet fruits complexed by cut tobacco (pouch) and darkened spices.

Seamless, with a tightness/tension between acidity and tannins.

These tannins are ripe and friendly – currently perceived as fruit, not oak tannins.

Oak – quite possibly partially contributing to the sweetness apparent on palate?

Flavour and length. Lingers.

Grape Varities: Cabernet Sauvignon.

Area: Barossa Valley, South Australia

Tasting: Dry

Drinking temperature: 16-18°C

Origin: Multi-regional blend, South Australia. From Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley, Wrattonbully and Padthaway.

Maturation: 12 months in French oak (25% new) and American oak hogshead (9% new).

Drinking well now, but will improve with time. Peak drinking 2020 – 2032

Alc.: 14,5% vol. 

Acidtiy: 6,6g/l

pH: 3,63

Allergy information: Contains Sulfites

Producer: 

58 Queensbridge Street

Southbank 

VIC 3006 

Australia

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