Penfolds Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz 2019
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- $100
- Drink by: 2023 - 2035
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The 2019 vintage – extremely dry and warm across the Barossa Valley – brings the perennially vibrant Marananga shiraz into its own. Never shy, it exudes the fruits of the summer with blueberry, black fruits and cherry wrapped around an Italianesque ferrous earthiness. The latter is an important feature of each release, a reference to the ancient Marananga ironstone and quartzite that lie beneath the vines.
Rather than subtle and poised, expect the full Penfolds experience combining smart, classy oak matched with ripe Barossan fruit concentration, and an almost in your face, glorious attack of cinnamon and Middle Eastern spices. Complexity is what this wine is all about. Marananga 2019 is in great form, the full Barossan sun of the vintage allows it to be itself, dense and generous across the palate. It fairly glides on and on across the finish line. And it tastes even better the second day!
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.
