THE PENFOLDS COLLECTION
12 Icons, across 6 Vintages Incl.
2018 Grange, 2019 Bin A & St Henri, 2021 RWT Bin 798, 2022 Bin 128 & Bin 407
2023 Bin 150, Bin 389 & Bin 707, 2024 Bin 311 & Bin 21
“Unless you have extra-ordinary wine friends I believe that this will be your only chance ever to try a number of these wines.” - JJ (John Jens)
Taste 12 Penfolds Icons Including…
PENFOLDS GRANGE 2018
Ken Gargett Wine of the Year 2022
James Suckling Top 100 Value Wines of the World 2022
James Suckling Top 100 Wines of Australia 2022
100 Points - Andrew Caillard MC, The Vintage Journal
100 Points - Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com
100 Points - Tony Love, Wine Pilot
100 Points - Ken Gargett, The World of Fine Wine
100 Points - Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Independent
99 Points - Jeni Port, Wine Pilot
99 Points - Erin Larkin
‘St. Henri’ Shiraz 2019
98 Points - Tony Love, Wine Pilot
19+/20 Points - Matthew Jukes
97 Points - Nick Stock, James Suckling
96+ Points - Erin Larkin, Robert Parkers Wine Advocate
96 Points - David Sly, Decanter Magazine
96 Points - Lisa Perrotti-Brown
2019 Bin 19A Chardonnay
Gold Medal IWC London 2021
Trophy IWC London, Best Adelaide Hills Chardonnay, 2021
Trophy IWC London, Best Australian Chardonnay, 2021
Trophy IWC London, Best Australian White Wine, 2021
98 Points - James Halliday
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The Penfolds Context
Penfolds has been recognised in the Top Three Most Admired Wine Brands by Drinks International for 2024. Now a veteran of the list, Penfolds featured third in this year’s list and retains the title of the Most Admired Wine Brand in Australasia.
The prestigious list, now in its 14th edition, has seen great wineries from every corner of the world recognised by a carefully selected panel of experts from around the world including sommeliers, buyers, wholesalers, Masters of Wine and writers.
Penfolds is the only Australian Winery to receive 100 points from both Wine Spectator (US) and Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (US) for the same Vintage (2008 Grange). In 2017, Grange was classified as a First Growth in Liv-ex's published recreation of the Bordeaux 1855 classification. Grange has been awarded over 30 perfect scores.
Five perfect scores for 2018 Grange from leading wine critics; Andrew Caillard MW, Ken Gargett (World of Fine Wine), Nick Stock (JamesSuckling.com), Tony Love and Lisa Perrotti-Brown
31 Winery of the Year awards from Wine & Spirits Magazine as of August 2023. More than any other winery in the world.
Best Tourism Winery and Best Tourism Restaurant at the 2022 Great Wine Capitals Best of Wine Tourism Awards.
Top 50 World's Best Vineyards 2022. An annual listing that highlights the ultimate wine tourism destinations in the world.
The FINE Wine Magazine's 2021 Best Winery of the World
(The world’s most respected wine magazine)2021 Golden Vines Best Fine Wine Producer in the Rest of
the World Award.2016 and 2019 Most Admired Wine Brand from Drinks International
2015 Winery of the Year from Wine Enthusiast Magazine
(US) - Joshua Greene2014 Winery of the Year from James Halliday Australian
Wine Companion (Australia) - James Halliday2013 Winery of the Year from Wine Enthusiast Magazine
(US) - Joshua Greene2013 Winery of the Year from Wine Taste Weekly (Australia)
- Tyson Stelzer2013 New World Winery of the Year from Wine Enthusiast Magazine (US) Wine & Spirits Mag (US)
2013 Best Launch for the Ampoule Campaign from The Drinks Business Awards (UK)
2012 Winery of the Year from The Good Wine Guide 2013 (Australia)
Peter Gago - Chief Winemaker at Penfolds hosting a private tasting at Lamont’s in 2024. Joined by JJ, Erin Larkin and friends.
World’s greatest number of 100 point scores?
Our 4 person full time research team the looked at Penfolds 100 point scores. We found well over 50 … of which 26 or 27 were from international reviewers - and 24 or 25 from Australian critics. We haven’t checked, but don’t believe there is another Australian winery in the past 15-20 years with more than 2 such scores.
The term ‘Bin’ originated from the storage location (BIN) in the Penfolds Magill Estate cellars in South Australia, where the wines were historically stored for maturation.
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Launched with the 1990 vintage in 1993, Penfolds Bin 407 was developed in response to the increasing availability of highquality Cabernet Sauvignon fruit. Inspired by Penfolds Bin 707, Bin 407 offers varietal definition and approachability, yet with structure and depth of flavour. A textbook Cabernet Sauvignon, the varietally expressive Bin 407 highlights the rewards of Penfolds multi-region, multi-vineyard blending, with a core of ripe fruit supported by a sensitive use of French and American oak.
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The tradition of innovation and experimentation is central to the Penfolds winemaking philosophy and is perpetuated in the form of Penfolds Cellar Reserve wines. These sometimes one-off releases emerge periodically when experimental wines, which have been nurtured carefully in the winery cellars, are deemed appropriate for public release. The wines do not necessarily fit into any particular genre and provide Penfolds winemakers with the freedom to strive for new styles and definitions of excellence in their expression. There has been a long time between drinks; the last Penfolds Cellar Reserve Cabernet Shiraz was the tiny, yet unforgettable, 1993! This is the quintessential Australian red wine blend - Cabernet Sauvignon from Coonawarra aligned with Shiraz from the Barossa Valley.
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Penfolds Bin 128 is sourced from the unique terra rossa soils of Coonawarra, a region that exemplifies the perfume, transparency and seductive nature of cool climate red table wines. Coonawarra has remained the sole source of shiraz fruit for Bin 128 since the inaugural release of the 1962 vintage. In order to further enhance the regional qualities of Bin 128, the wine is matured in a mixture of new and seasoned French oak hogsheads, a method that was refined during the 1980's when the transition was made from American to French oak. The cool climate Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz provides an interesting counterpoint to the more opulent and richly concentrated warm climate Bin 28 Shiraz.
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St Henri is a time-honoured and alternative expression of Shiraz, and an intriguing counterpoint to Grange. It is unusual among high quality Australian red wines as it does not rely on any new oak. Released for the first time by Penfolds in the early 1950s (first commercial vintage 1957), it gained a new lease of life in the 1990s as its quality and distinctive style became better understood. Proudly, a wine style that hasn't succumbed to the dictates of fashion or commerce. St Henri is rich and plush when young, gaining soft, earthy, mocha-like characters as it ages. It is matured in old, 1,460 litre vats that allow the wine to develop, imparting minimal, if any oak character. Although a small proportion of Cabernet is sometimes used to improve structure, the focal point for St Henri remains Shiraz.
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Born from Max Schubert's famed Grange trials in the mid-20th century, Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz is one of Penfolds most sought-after red blend wines. Its distinct personality showcases the benefits of cross-varietal and multi-regional blending, with complex aromatics, palate richness and decades of cellaring capability.
Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz, often known as 'Baby Grange', is named after its original binning compartment at Magill cellars. First produced in 1960, its history is connected with the development of Grange and Max Schubert's ambition to create what he called 'a dynasty of wines' for Penfolds.
Early Bin 389 vintages were made with fruit from around the Adelaide foothills, including Auldana and Magill. According to retired Penfolds Senior Winemaker John Bird, a small portion of Morphett Vale fruit, parcels not used for Grange and sometimes McLaren Vale fruit were also included in the blend during the 1960s. After Penfolds vineyards around Adelaide were extensively pulled out to make way for urban development during the mid-1970s, Barossa Valley, particularly the Kalimna Vineyard,
became a dominant source of fruit.Since the mid-1990s Bin 389 has drawn fruit from around South Australia, including Barossa Valley, Coonawarra, Padthaway, McLaren Vale, Langhorne Creek, Wrattonbully, Clare Valley and Robe. Exacting specifications of ripeness, classic Penfolds winemaking and strict classification of wines after maturation have ensured the style has remained consistent since the beginning.
Bin 389 epitomises Penfolds winemaking philosophy and the benefits of cross-varietal and multi-regional blending. Max Schubert always favoured warmer-climate fruit as a source for the wine. By marrying the perfume and chocolaty tannins of ripe cabernet sauvignon with opulent and fleshy shiraz he could achieve extra aromatic complexity, volume and palate richness. The style has been refined over the last 60 years through meticulous fruit selection, the introduction of new technology and winemaking refinements. During the 1960s, use of refrigeration and stainless steel enabled winemakers to preserve freshness; new membrane presses during the 1970s allowed gentler extraction of flavours and tannins.
Vineyard management practices and a rigorous fruit-grading system have also contributed to higher quality fruit. Nonetheless, the overall winemaking practices have not changed: the classical heading down in open fermenters, partial barrel fermentation and maturation in new and seasoned American oak (much used previously for Penfolds Grange and Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon) remain key Penfolds techniques.
Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz remains one of Australia's most popular collectible red wines because of its consistency and long-term cellaring potential.
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Grange stands as the most powerful expression of Penfolds multi-vineyard, multi-regional blending philosophy and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. Crafted from fully ripe, intensely flavoured Shiraz, it delivers a unique Australian style acclaimed among the world’s greatest wines. With an unbroken line of vintages since the experimental 1951, each release demonstrates the enduring synergy between Shiraz and the soils and climates of South Australia, extending the vision and unwavering conviction of its creator, Max Schubert.
The Wine List and Menu
2024 Penfolds Bin 311 Chardonnay
"Pale colour, Grapefruit lanolin tonic water aromas with some flinty herb notes. Generously flavoured and creamy textured with lovely pure grapefruit, white peach flavours, fine loose knit dry chalky textures, attractive mid-palate viscosity/ pith and underlying marzipan notes. Finishes crispy and minerally long. A generous expression of Bin 311. Drink now - 2035. 13% alc.
95 Points - Andrew Caillard MW
2019 Penfolds Bin 19A Chardonnay
98 Points - James Halliday
97 Points - Andrew Caillard MW
97 Points - Tyson Stelzer
97 Points - Ray Jordan
96+ Points - PointsCampbell Mattinson, The Wine Front
- Gold Medal IWC London 2021
- Trophy IWC London, Best Adelaide Hills Chardonnay, 2021
- Trophy IWC London, Best Australian Chardonnay, 2021
- Trophy IWC London, Best Australian White Wine, 2021
Hand picked, whole-bunch pressed, part direct to barriques for wild ferment and 100% mlf, the balance via tank for brief settling before 8 months in French oak (80% new). A beautifully detailed chardonnay, white peach and pink grapefruit plus supple creamy cashew run through the very long palate. Rubs shoulders with the best in the land.
98 Points - James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion
Pale gold. Classic flinty, grapefruit, nectarine aromas with underlying vanilla roasted almond notes. Generous in flavour yet tight in structure with pure grapefruit white peach nectarine flavours, creamy textures, savoury complexity and fresh persistent mineral acidity. Finishes long, sweet and crisp with light marzipan notes. Beautiful wine. Wonderful cutting-edge Australian Chardonnay showing superb volume, richness of fruit and tension. An Australian First Growth Chardonnay reflecting superb fruit sourcing and winemaking philosophy. Move over Puligny!
97 Points - Andrew Caillard MW
Abrolhos scallops, Nduja butter
2024 Penfolds Bin 21 Grenache
The Bin 21 Grenache has been in fine form lately and again impresses with the '24 release. A vibrant medium crimson in the glass with aromas of red and dark plum, boysenberry, raspberry and wild strawberry. Hints of exotic spice, cola, pomegranate juice, earth and gingerbread. Pure plummy fruits on the palate with hints of ginger cake. A cloud of nice fine tannin provides some gentle chew to its form, and there is a plume of pure fruit and spice on the exit.
95 Points - Dave Brooks, Halliday Wine Companion
2018 Penfolds Bin 138 Shiraz Grenache Mataro
Deep crimson. Intense blackberry, musky plum, inky aromas with roasted walnut notes. Generous velvety wine with deep set juicy blackberry, dark chocolate, musky plum fruits, fine plentiful chocolaty firm textures, savoury oak complexity and integrated fine acidity. Finishes chocolaty leafy firm with musky plum aniseed notes. Delicious early drinking style with superb richness of flavour and power. Best to drink soon. Seal; screwcap Now – 2028 14.5% alc 95 points. Fantastic early drinking style with dense colour, plentiful grenache-like musky complexity, superb viscosity and freshness. A highlight of the 2020 Collection. Around 14 months in seasoned French & American oak hogsheads.
95 Points - Andrew Caillard MW
2022 Penfolds Bin 128 Coonawarra Shiraz
A powerful expression of Coonawarra in a season that finished pretty good, providing fruit of great depth and concentration, but with typical regional elegance. Shows lots more meaty shiraz characters than the previous year with a cracked black pepper influence adding further lift. The palate is quite firm with grainy chalky tannins in support. Nice leafy nuance on the finish. These wines can handle extended cellaring.
94 Points - Ray Jordan, rayjordanwine.com
2023 Penfolds Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz
In recent times, the Bin 150 has been one of my favourite red wines in the Penfolds quiver. It shows pure blood plum and black cherry fruits studded with ironstone, baking spices, olive tapenade, dark chocolate, blackforest cake, cedar and earth. It speaks clearly of its subregional origins, that being Marananga in the western Barossa Valley. I love the shape and fruit weight of this wine. The ferrous tannins provide a framework and the pure fruit drapes off that tannin architecture beautifully. It's a cracking release.
96 Points - Dave Brooks, Halliday Wine Companion
Duck croquette, salsa verde
2023 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz
This wine has been made every vintage since 1960. Refined, generous and polished aromas of blackberries, blackcurrants, cured meat, crushed stones and iodine. The palate is full-bodied with a rounded, textural palate and ultra-refined tannins that lead to a silky, savory, black-fruited finish. Excellent. Drink or hold.
97 Points - James Suckling
2019 Penfolds St Henri Shiraz
98 Points - Tony Love, Wine Pilot
19+/20 Points - Matthew Jukes
97 Points - Nick Stock, James Suckling
96+ Points - Erin Larkin, Robert Parkers Wine Advocate
96 Points - David Sly, Decanter Magazine
96 Points - Lisa Perrotti-Brown
This can only ever be a stylistic expression of the shiraz variety, as sourcing from six SA districts eliminates regionality. (For the record, The Peninsulas is a defined GI region, this fruit coming from the outskirts of Port Lincoln on the Eyre Peninsula.) The wine's point of difference within the Penfolds range is that it has no new oak maturation and spends only 12 months in large format seasoned vats. The result is a sophisticated, dark, almost mysterious shiraz, a wine with secrets within that one suspects will reveal great joys over the next 20 to 30 years, as its forebears have proved for more than half a century. For now, in and around the black fruits there are flint, mushroom, licorice and roast meat notes. Plenty to unpack. A serious SA shiraz that remains a really enticing proposition.
98 Points - Tony Love, Wine Pilot
2022 Penfolds Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon
This is another multi-regional blend from vineyards in Coonawarra, Padthaway, Wrattonbully, McLaren Vale and the Barossa. This marks the continuing more to the cooler southern regions, especially in a year like 2022 which was superb down there. Aromas of floral, sage and dried herbs on the nose. The palate shows delicious, sweet ripe fruit with flavours of iron filings. I reckon this is one of the best yet under this label. Like that seashell minerality and chalky character on the finish. Cellar 20 years.
97 Points - Ray Jordan
Angus a la minute, black garlic, leafy greens
2021 Penfolds RWT Bin 798 Barossa Valley Shiraz
An excellent RWT release from Barossa Valley shiraz matured in French oak hogsheads (80/20% new/one-year-old) for 14 months. Purple splashed crimson in the glass, it smells Barossa through and through with super-ripe dark plum, mulberry and blue fruits cut through with hints of baking spices, berry cream, licorice, panforte, dark chocolate, cedar and struck flint. Concentrated and opulent with densely packed fine tannins, deep, resonant Barossa fruit and a powerful yet elegant, distinctly regional profile. Another for the cellar.
96 Points - Dave Brooks, Halliday Wine Companion
2023 Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon
here's no doubting the pedigree of the Bin 707. First released in 1964, it is one of Australia's finest cabernets, and the '23 release is a continuation of its stellar bloodline. Deep crimson with aromas of macerated blackberry, black cherry, blackcurrant, cassis and doris plum fruits with hints of cinnamon, nutmeg, blackforest cake and dried herbs. Notes of distant bramble, cedar, licorice and earth. For all its depth and latent power, I like the clarity and detail in this release. The fruit is on-point, pure. The fine-grained tannins, showing heft initially, slowly recess into the fruit, resulting in a wine of elegance, grace and sleekness of shape. One for the cellar – if you can keep your hands off it.
97 Points - Dave Brooks, Halliday Wine Companion
2018 Penfolds Grange Shiraz
Ken Gargett Wine of the Year 2022
James Suckling Top 100 Value Wines of the World 2022
James Suckling Top 100 Wines of Australia 2022
100 Points - Andrew Caillard MC, The Vintage Journal
100 Points - Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com
100 Points - Tony Love, Wine Pilot
100 Points - Ken Gargett, The World of Fine Wine
100 Points - Lisa Perrotti-Brown, The Wine Independent
99 Points - Jeni Port, Wine Pilot
99 Points - Erin Larkin
Deep colour. Beautfiul and classic, with intense blackberry, blackcurrant dark chocolate espresso aromas and wax polish, roasted chestnut, malt notes. Superbly concenrated wine with deep-set inky blackberry, blackcurrant, dark plum, dark chocolate mocha flavours, fine chocolaty/velvety tannins, underlying espresso, malt, oak notes and hints of aniseed. Finishes chocolaty firm with superbly integrated acidity and mineral length. A glorious year for Grange. This will last 50 years at least. Wonderful. One of the greatest vintages of all time, highlighting a superb growing season, marvellous vineyard management, the fidelity of the Penfolds house style, and generations of imagination and effort. 97% Shriaz, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon. Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Clare Valley. 18 months maturation in 100% new American oak hogsheads. Drink 2030-2060+.
100 Points - Andrew Caillard MC, The Vintage Journal
A robust Grange from a lauded vintage, this wields sheer power with such compelling prowess. Uncompromising Grange. There are rich blackberries and plums on offer, together with brazen oak and abundant notes of blackcurrants, black cherries, charcoal, cola and hard brown spices. So fleshy and intense. Dark-chocolate and cocoa-powder aromas and flavors here, too. The tannins are polished and long, extruding deep into the finish and holding endlessly. Dark chocolate, black cherry, dark plum and more. Impressive. Brazen. One of the great Granges that will drink magnificently for decades to come.
100 Points - Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com
There was one wine, however, that I was even keener to taste again: the 2018 Grange. I’d given it 100 points the first time I tasted it and was blown away. That said, when one goes big, so to speak, for such a young wine, there are always nagging doubts. Did it really deserve such an exulted score? I was far from the only one to rate it so highly, but I was still keen to see whether or not I had gotten a bit too excited on the day. Absolutely not. This is a truly spectacular wine, fully deserving of its score. Indeed, I think it is the most thrilling young Grange (Aussie red wine, if you like) that I have ever tasted, and that in time it will sit with the very best: 1952, 1953, 1962, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2010, and 2012. No doubt others will have their own view on the greatest Granges, but all these must rank with the finest (in fairness, I should state that I have included the 1952 on reputation as I have not had the pleasure).
So my 'wine of the year' came down to the choice from a pair from Penfolds: the 1962 Bin 60A and the 2018 Grange. I’m opting for the latter, simply because it will still be available (and a fraction of the price, though hardly everyday drinking at AUD$1,000)."
100 Points - Ken Gargett, The World of Fine Wine
Maffra cheddar, quince, warm sourdough toast