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Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2012
BOTTLE:
$140.00
Out of stock
SKU
33046
HALF-DOZEN: $840.00 or $140.00 each
DOZEN: $1,680.00 or $140.00 each
DOZEN: $1,680.00 or $140.00 each
Producer: Penfolds
Country:
Australia
Region:
South Australia
Grape: Cab/Shiraz
Size:
BTL
Vintage:
2012
Every year I have the opportunity to judge Bin 389 pre-release in The Great Australian Red competition, and it never shows at its best at this young age. It’s predictably closed up like a trap on the eve of its new, early release date of mid-October 2014. Vigorous decanting and hours and even days of coaxing slowly draw out impressive layers of black fruits and reticent violet perfume, set within a rigid and finely strung cage of impeccable tannin structure. It is plainly apparent from the outset is that this is one of the benchmark, long-lived releases in the grand, 42 year lineage of Bin 389. Do not miss it and, above all, do not dare open a bottle in the next decade, and preferably the next two. This year, a blend of 54% cabernet sauvignon and 46% shiraz from Wrattonbully, Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek and Robe. 96 points. TYSON STELZER