Penfolds Bin 704 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2022
- 93
- $125
- Drink by: 2025-2038
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Lives large and ripe, the result of what was to all reports some intense Napa Valley heat during harvest. With such ripeness in hand, the level of French oak (16 months, maturation 45% new) is more than up to the challenge. It’s very much early days, but already there is a sense of power. Offers pure notes of rich blackberries, cassis, dusty beets, warm earth, leaf, briar and smart vanillin oak. Concentrated, deeply so, against a backdrop of compact tannins and creamy French oak (45% new), it remains focussed in Cabernet flavour and finishing with pure Napa Valley confidence and drive.
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.
