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PENFOLDS Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 2005 | South Australia | 1 BOTTLE | AU$400-450 | AUD $ 280 |
Robert Parker Score: 94 points
Reviewer: Jay S Miller — 18125 Feb 2009
Drink 2009–2034
The 2005 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon was aged for 16 months in 100% new American oak hogsheads. Already complex aromatically, scents of cedar, sage, clove, mineral, black currant, and blackberry waft from the glass. Smooth, layered, and bordering on opulent, this will be a long-lived Cabernet which should drink well for 25 years.
Penfolds produces a bevy of excellent value-priced wines, many of which were reviewed in Issue 178.
James Halliday Score: 95 points
Reviewer: James Halliday
Read the full tasting note on Halliday Wine Companion (subscription).
Wine-Searcher Aggregated Score: 93 points
2005 Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon
Penfolds Rewards of Patience ★★★★☆
Penfolds — The Rewards of Patience, Ninth Edition
Drink: Drink now 2035
Deep crimson. Blackcurrant pastille, espresso, mocha aromas with mineral graphite notes. Inky deep with attractive cassis, blackberry pastille, espresso, marzipan, roasted coffee flavours, fine loose-knit firm graphite/chalky tannins, underlying mocha, marzipan notes, lovely inky density, and fresh mineral acidity. Builds up Claret-firm with a lovely tail of ripe berry fruits. "Elegant, graceful, and quite reserved with gently coating tannins, still yet to soften." (NB) Lovely density, complexity and mineral freshness. 14.5% alc Barossa Valley (52%), Coonawarra, Padthaway, and Wrattonbully
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