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Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 2010

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  Vintage 2010
  100 points

Deep crimson purple. Intense cassis, dark fruit, malt, toasted oak notes. Dense and elemental with exuberant dark cherries, cassis aniseed flavours, fine ripe chocolaty tannins and judiciously balanced vanilla, malt oak. A ripe juicy finish with a savoury tannin plume. Luxuriant, powerful and perfectly balanced. A landmark Bin 707 with huge cellaring potential.

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  Vintage 2010
  97 points www.tysonstelzer.com

2010 is a big and robust 707 that commands attention and screams out for a very long time to fully come into its own. From the outset, an amazing depth of colour, intense black with a fingernail-narrow rim of vibrant purple. Its desperately young, and closed up like a trap on the bouquet. The palate is monumental, powerfully intense with cassis and blackcurrant fruit, and deeply structured with a firm undercarriage of solid yet fine tannins. Layers of fruit and oak jostle for position, ultimately settling into a comfortable truce, both desperate for time in the cellar to find their form. The Barossa Valley takes pole position this year, followed by Padthaway, Coonawarra, Wrattonbully and the Adelaide Hills. Gago declared that this vintage will give any Bin 707 back to 1964 a run for its money. Its certainly a vintage that will turn heads, capture hearts and sell out in a nanosecond ...