Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 1998 Magnum
Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon is the Cabernet equivalent of Grange: ripe, intensely-flavoured fruit, fermented and matured in new American oak, and expressing the Penfolds policy of multi-vineyard, multi-region fruit-sourcing. Named by an ex Qantas marketing man, the first Bin 707 was the 1964 vintage. The wine was not made from 1970 to 1975 (when the focus shifted to Bin 389) nor in 1981, 1995 or 2000 (when fruit of the required style and quality was not available). Big and long-lived, Bin 707 has a secure place among the ranks of Australia’s finest Cabernets. Packaged in laser-etched bottles from the 1997 vintage
$2,000.00 each
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Cellaring:
Enjoy now or 10+ years
Nose:
Deep, dark red, almost opaque. Concentrated creme de cassis and damson plums to the fore, with floral aromas in the background. Nutty oak complexed by barrel-ferment characters.
Palate:
An opulent, flamboyant wine with definitive varietal characters: exaggerated blueberry/blackberry fruit, but without jamminess, layers of flavour, obvious but balanced oak and
pronounced, chewy, ripe tannins. Impressively long in flavour, without reliance
Varietal Composition:
Cabernet Sauvignon
