Penfolds
Bin 128 Shiraz

Wine styleDry, Full Bodied style of ShirazFood matchPairs well with BeefRegionCoonawarra, Australia
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Wine styleDry, Full Bodied style of ShirazFood matchPairs well with BeefRegionCoonawarra, Australia
With each vintage release the cool-climate Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz provides an interesting counterpoint to the more opulent and richly concentrated warm climate Kalimna Bin 28 Shiraz. Bin 128 comprises fruit sourced from the unique terra rossa soils of Coonawarra, a region that exemplifies the perfume, transparency and seductive nature of coolclimate red table wines. Coonawarra has remained the source of shiraz fruit for Bin 128 since the inaugural release of the 1962 vintage. In order to further enhance the regional qualities of Bin 128, the wine is matured in a mixture of new and seasoned French oak hogsheads, a method that was refined during the 1980's when the transition was made from American to French oak.
With each vintage release the cool-climate Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz provides an interesting counterpoint to the more opulent and richly concentrated warm climate Kalimna Bin 28 Shiraz. Bin 128 comprises fruit sourced from the unique terra rossa soils of Coonawarra, a region that exemplifies the perfume, transparency and seductive nature of coolclimate red table wines. Coonawarra has remained the source of shiraz fruit for Bin 128 since the inaugural release of the 1962 vintage. In order to further enhance the regional qualities of Bin 128, the wine is matured in a mixture of new and seasoned French oak hogsheads, a method that was refined during the 1980's when the transition was made from American to French oak.
Taste profile
Full Bodied
Full Bodied
Full Bodied
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Full bodied red wines have a noticeably textural mouthfeel with bold, complex flavours. Often deeply coloured.
Dry
Dry
Dry
Dry
Dry
Dry
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Dry wines have no trace of sweetness at all.
  • TypeShiraz
  • Size750mL
  • RegionCoonawarra
  • Current Vintage2015* - Vintage is not guaranteed and may vary store to store or when delivered.
  • Standard Drinks8.6
  • Alcohol Volume14.50%
  • Langtons ClassifiedExcellent
  • CountryAustralia
  • StateSouth Australia
  • Brand NamePenfolds
  • Wine MakerPeter Gago
  • Food MatchBeef
  • ClosureScrew Cap
  • Wine SweetnessDry
  • Wine BodyFull Bodied

    • Vintage 2015
      93 points

    Medium deep crimson. Attractive raspberry boysenberry, blackcurrant pastille aromas with herb garden white pepper notes. Medium concentrated wine with ripe buoyant red and dark berry fruits, fine grained touch bitter tannins, attractive viscosity, underly

    • Vintage 2014
      90 points www.winefront.com.au

    ...Plums and cloves. Doesn''t show a lot of oak. Doesn''t show a lot of spunk. It''s clean and fruit-driven in a red berried way but it''s hard to mount a serious or convincing case in this release''s favour. It''s good, it''s fine, it''s ripe, it''s berried, it has an elegance and a gently peppery/clovey edge but there''s not a lot to set it apart or - the crux of the matter - justify the asking price. Nothing wrong with the wine, but you''d pass this one over.

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