Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2019 (3000ml)

Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2019 (3000ml)Penfolds Bin 389 is often referred to as 'Baby Grange', in part because components of the wine are matured in the same barrels that held the previous vintage of Grange. First made in 1960 by the legendary Max Schubert, this was the wine that helped forge Penfolds reputation with red wine drinkers by combining the structure of cabernet sauvignon with the richness of shiraz. It is named after its original binning compartment at Magill cellars.

From the Craggy Range stable comes a delicious

"This glorious shiraz is dark and brooding

Location: Gladysdale

"Cedary and dusty

with his grape-growing forebears marking their lineage in the Barossa back to 1853

Drink by: 2060

the youngest having been planted in 1963

restrained fruit

Heat early in the season

James Halliday and Jacques Lurton and we had some great Australian winemakers in attendance too

and to have a nice backbone of tannin

It captures everything I like in modern Australian Chardonnay without going too far down the lean and mean path