Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 1980

Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 1980Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Shiraz is Australia's most famous wine with a reputation for superb fruit complexity and flavour richness. It is the most powerful expression of Penfolds multi vineyard, multi district blending philosophy and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. One of the world's great wines. "A layered and beautiful wine with chocolate, cedar, walnut and berry character. Lots of cedar. Medium body, soft and delicious.

What a ripper from an exceptionally dry year

The first release of St George Cabernet Sauvignon was the 1973 vintage

saturated in old vine Shiraz flavour yet perfectly poised

with vines entering the growing season with good soil moisture profiles

seductive fashion

full malolactic fermentation)

and it has elegant concentration and underlying tension

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so this is likely to be a wine one can enjoy and watch evolve over many years to come

This 2021 is as fine as it gets

some of the Cabernet spending extended time on skins for complexity

Three of their vineyards are in the Eden Valley