Penfolds Bin 600 Cabernet Shiraz 2022
- 95
- $90
- Drink by: 2025-2036
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Close your eyes, take a sniff and visions of wildflowers, wild thyme, earth and bush come into view. It’s a powerfully evocative mental picture courtesy of this engaging Californian Cabernet Shiraz. Sweet fruited, generous, textural and immediately approachable in scents of crushed herbs, thyme, caraway, wildflowers, earth, black cherry, black berries and vanilla. A solid base of American oak (45% new) lays the foundation for what follows, the back palate positively shining in roasted spices – allspice, cinnamon, dark woody spice notes – meshed in dark fruits, crushed herbs and framed in fine, powdery tannins. Bay leaf? Well, it is intimated, adding a discreet regional signature to this sunny red which speaks perfect Californian.
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.
