Penfolds Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon 2023
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- $130
- Drink by: 2025-2043
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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.
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.
