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Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz

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"This is the Bin 389 we've been waiting for." - Peter Gago, Chief Winemaker

  • Varietal:  Cabernet Shiraz
  • Current Vintage:  2010*
  • Size:  750mL

Penfolds Bin 389 is the classic South Australian red! Often referred to as 'Baby Grange' or 'Poor Man's Grange', Bin 389 was the wine that helped to build Penfolds' solid reputation with wine drinkers around the world. A magnificent blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz from the very best regions and vineyards available to Peter Gago and his team, the robust nature of the Cabernet grape give structure and body to the wine while the opulent Shiraz fruit provides suppleness and intensity. A true icon of Australian wine first created by the legend himself, Max Schubert, Peter Gago is quoted as saying 'Through thick and thin, across all vintages, Bin 389 always delivers - benefitting from over half a century of practice!'

Please note: A limit of 24 bottles per customer applies.

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$59.95 in any six

  • $359.70 per case of 6
  • $66.65 per bottle
Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz

Deep crimson pruple. A richly concentrated wine with Grange-like power and finesse. Intense blackberry. Dark chcoplate, liquorice aromas with fresh ginger new oak notes. The palate is substantial with saturated blackberry, juicy fruit liquorice flavours, plentiful chalky tannins, vanilla malt oak notes and delicious meaty complexity. Finishes muscular firm. A classic Penfolds wine with huge potential.
Vintage: 2010 Score: 95 points
Andrew Caillard MW

Depth and definition of fruit elevate 2010 among the great 389s of all time, displaying immaculate tension between concentration, vibrant lift and structural assuredness that make it both enticing right away and charge it with the stamina to live very long. Built around a core of Coonawarra cabernet and Barossa shiraz, with support from Wrattonbully, Robe, McLaren Vale, Padthaway and the Adelaide Hills, this is a 389 of such depth of colour that it barely shows a rim at all, and what there is of it is a luminescent purple. There is a core of immaculately ripe, sumptuous, even succulent fruit to the palate, yet eminently structured and impeccably poised, with beautifully fine and structurally honed tannins that promise to propel it very long into the future. A magnificent core of impeccably polished black cherries, glossy blackberries and liquorice straps retains a bright liveliness and monumental line and length. To quote Gago, This is the Bin 389 weve been waiting for!
Vintage: 2010 Score: 97 points
Tyson Stelzer
Source: tysonstelzer.com

Theres so much granular tannin here it almost feels as though you can taste the sediment in it, as a young wine. Schubert would likely have approved. This is a determined style of wine. In terms of flavour, as is often the case with 389, cabernet is the main player. Blackcurrant, dust, chocolate, black olives, cloves and menthol. Theres a lot of typical Penfolds vanillin oak here, and indeed when you swallow, it provides the final impression. The mid palate, interestingly, also carries a hint of fresh leather  an attractive flavour that can make some drinkers nervous. I know I always rabbit on about tannin, but the spread here is remarkable ... Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and a syrupy mix of the three. This wine is very 389, very Penfolds, and if you tend to react against either, then you wont like this. But this tastes like a pinnacle release 389 to me. And when the aroma has evolved and the finish tidied itself up, perhaps even a great one.
Vintage: 2010 Score: 95+ points
Campell Mattinson
Source: winefront.com.au

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Varietal Cabernet Shiraz
Brand Name Penfolds
Liquor Style Dry Red
Size 750mL
Current Vintage 2010*
Vintage Note * Vintages may vary from store to store and when delivered. Every effort is made to ensure the current vintage is displayed, however variations can occur.
Cellar For Drink 2020 - 2040
Langton's Classification Outstanding
Country Australia
State South Australia
Winemaker Peter Gago
Closure Screw Cap
Standard Drinks 8.6 (2010)
Alcohol By Volume 14.5% (2010)
Website www.penfolds.com
Product Code DM_73309

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