Bin 28 offers a showcase of warm-climate Australian Shiraz – ripe, robust and generously flavoured. First made in 1959, Bin 28 is named after the famous Barossa Valley Kalimna Vineyard purchased by Penfolds in 1945 and from which the wine was originally sourced. Today, Bin 28 is a multi-region, multi-vineyard blend, with the Barossa Valley always well represented.
Vibrant, dense plum red, red edges.
A black Kalamata olive tapenade as a first impression, beneath an overlay of camphor and tobacco.
How to say this politely? Boot polish, bitumen, cola, granite … darkened style/varietal base notes.
Yet blackberry conserve and sour cherry fill the (fruity) treble register.
Scents of cut straw/steel cut oats fill any aromatic chord gaps.
Full-bodied. Substantial. Framboise des bois (raspberry) with pips/vinegar – coulis or apothecary?
Meat? Closest association noted – raw/rare venison. Not to deny the welcomed presence of chocolate torte and mocha flavours.
A “cloaked” continuum of tannins that linger and reverberate with the discipline of a vinous pendulum.
Finishes intact with a flourish of dusty graphite (input of oak?) and balanced acidity.
