Penfolds Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz 2023
- 92
- $75
- Drink by: 2025-2037
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A cool season and vintage explained well in the glass. Deep purple hues. Bay leaf, spearmint, pepper aromas offer a distinctive pungency next to bright red fruits, cranberry and crushed herbs. There’s an elegance here, stately and firm. It’s got time on its side and it knows it. Grainy, sinewy tannins come into force on the palate, tight and focused, almost unassuming. More herbals than spice float across the palate accompanied by cacao and earthy notes, allowing the fruit to sweep across with Aussie bush notes in train. Made for future enjoyment.
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.
