Description
"Bin 707 is a perfect Cabernet Sauvignon representation of Penfolds House Style: intensely flavoured fruit, with the completion of fermentation and maturation in new oak. It expresses a Penfolds understanding of multi-vineyard, multi-region fruit sourcing. Like Grange, it is a blend of the best Cabernet fruit from the vintage. First vintaged in 1964, Bin 707 has long retained a secure place among the ranks of Australia’s finest Cabernets. The 2023 vintage is a rich and commanding wine, its palate saturated with dark fruit flavours with notes of dark chocolate, spice and savoury depths. An expansive, full-bodied wine with proven transformation in the cellar." - Producer Notes
"This vintage hails from vineyards in McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and Padthaway. Maturation is in American oak for a year and a half, all of it new. This release is a monumental wine. Impressive, exhibiting such length and exuberance. The highlight is a sweet core of dark cherry/chocolate. The colour is an opaque maroon while the nose opens with plums, chocolate (which never really abandons us), spices, bergamot, plenty of oak deftly handled, cassis, licorice, spices, nutmeg, cold tea, smoked meats, graphite and black cherries. Time in the glass saw the cassis/dark cherries/kirsch notes emerge more and more. There is refinement here, though it quickly morphs into a hedonistic energy, balance and focus, with fresh acidity running the length. This will easily sail through the next twenty to thirty years." - 98 Points, Ken Gargett, Wine Pilot
"Deep crimson with aromas of macerated blackberry, black cherry, blackcurrant, cassis and doris plum fruits with hints of cinnamon, nutmeg, blackforest cake and dried herbs. Notes of distant bramble, cedar, licorice and earth. For all its depth and latent power, I like the clarity and detail in this release. The fruit is on-point, pure. The fine-grained tannins, showing heft initially, slowly recess into the fruit, resulting in a wine of elegance, grace and sleekness of shape. One for the cellar – if you can keep your hands off it." - 97 Points, Dave Brookes, Halliday Wine Companion
