Penfolds Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon 2023

You get the sense that the French and American oak regime on 407 has been ever so slowly evolving, changing and refining into something that is less about power and more about character building, working to varietal character enhancement. The ‘23 vintage is led by fruit from Padthaway with Coonawarra, McLaren Vale and the Barossa Valley. Bountiful red fruits, cassis, a touch of forest floor and earth, herbal tea, lapsang souchong, bay leaf, salt bush and dark spices. It’s a potent, complex mix delivered on a taut and well composed palate fashioned in fine, dense tannins. And being 407 and with those tannins in place, it’s got time definitely on its side.