Penfolds Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz 2019
- 90
- $60
- Drink by: 2021 - 2029
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A wine still coming together, working it out. Each piece of the wine puzzle – fruit, tannins, oak – revolves around the other, but is yet to mesh fully. And amongst it all, there is a level of savouriness that builds. Interesting Bin 128 here.
Black and blue fruits, violet, blackberry leaf, roasted coffee grounds introduce a wine very different in style to the general Penfolds portfolio. Coonawarra lends itself easily to structure, a linear quality, fine in tannins and black fruited intensity. It’s all here. Set amongst the herb notes, the berries and dense background, a savoury meatiness arises, of smoked charcuterie, meat extract. It brings with it a warm mid-palate texture continuing through to a sinewy, dry finish.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
