Penfolds Bin 28 Shiraz

Penfolds Bin 28 Shiraz is a warm climate Aussie Shiraz from the wiley old grandmasters of Aussie red wine making. Penfolds Bin 28 Shiraz is a real consumer favourite every year from the Penfolds Bin Range – which is probably why the wiley old grandmaster of Aussie wine critics James Halliday calls it “the mother of the bin range”.

Although originally produced from a single vineyard site (their Kalimna vineyard, you’d never have guessed) as popularity and demand grew they began to produce the wine from multiple vineyards across multiple regions, but still with plenty of fruit presence from the world famous Barossa Valley in there.

This is the latest 2024 release of Penfolds Bin 28 Shiraz with the usual solid scores backing it up…

93/100 (James Halliday’s Wine Companion)
“Deep magenta-splashed crimson in the glass. Aromas of ripe blackberry, boysenberry and damson plum, as well as hints of tea cake, baking spices, black pepper, plum conserve, vanilla pod, wood spice, warm earth and milk chocolate. It sits at the lower end of full bodied, with pure, ripe berry fruits, a slide of sarsaparilla, cocoa nibs and crushed stone on the palate. Finely grained tannins and bright acidity provide ample architecture for further cellaring here.”

93/100 & Top Rank Award (Huon Hooke, The Real Review)
“Very deep, dark, dense purple-red colour, black in its heart. Blackstrap licorice, ironstone, chocolate and blackberry aromas; A full-bodied shiraz with assertive but balanced tannins which are velvet-smooth and round. A subtle lacing of coconut oak. This is a serious shiraz which will live long and take a while to build its complexity. A Bin 28 to tuck away; no hurry to drink it.”

93/100 (James Suckling)
“Densely packed black fruits with bitter chocolate, tobacco, mint and red brick. The palate is full-bodied and rounded with firmly integrated tannins and a savory mineral-edged finish. Nicely balanced and classical. Drink or hold.”

It’s simple. Drink some, cellar some. How long you ask? This could comfortably lay down up to 2044, if you could possible wait that long! Penfolds Bin 28 Shiraz