ZTAT001 Penfolds Bin 169 Cabernet Sauvignon 2019
Price: $1250/bottle
Country: Australia/Coonawara
Grape variety: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon
Alcohol: 14%
Volume: 750ml
【Wine Advocate 97】Made only in appropriate vintages, and always from Coonawarra, the 2019 Bin 169 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon is aromatically reticent at this stage, however the power of the fruit in the mouth is unassailable. It blossoms on the back palate and shows pedigree and impressive stature. This is a supremely elegant wine of poise and detail, couched in a framework of power and dense muscly tannin. We all have our preferences between Bin 707 and Bin 169, but for me, my heart has always been with the 169. I think Cabernet deserves an elegant casing, and that is made from French oak (17 months in French oak, 56% new, to be precise). This is pure, but far too young right now. We know this has decades of graceful development ahead of it.
【James Suckling 97】
Such impressive freshness to the aromas of pure mulberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, redcurrants and a swathe of roasting herbs, such as bay leaf and sage. Iodine and nori, too. The French oak is nicely subsumed already and there's fruit purity that really sings here. The palate has a wealth of rich and ripe blue and black-fruit flavors with plenty of extract and depth on offer. This is an impressively bold, smoothly honed and focused cabernet. Fine, polished tannins frame the long finish. Drink over the next decade and more.
Created to reflect a Penfolds contemporary winemaking approach, emphasising both regionality and maturation of cabernet sauvignon in fine-grained French oak. A style that is immediately Penfolds, whilst simultaneously illustrative of its ongoing search for diversity and style separation. An honest reflection of the region bearing testament of Penfolds longstanding commitment to the vineyards of Coonawarra.In 2008, we decided to add a contemporary regional stablemate to the collection, a partner to the revered multi-regional Bin 707.
Sourced from some of the same revered blocks as Max Schubert’s original 1973 Bin 169 Coonawarra Claret. A contemporary alternative to Bin 707 with a strong regional imprint. A sibling to RWT and a twin to Bin 150. This gorgeously scented and richly concentrated wine is steeped in the origins of our modern winemaking traditions. It was not made in 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017.DISCOVER COLLECTION
Australian Wine King-Penfolds
Penfolds Winery is located in Barossa Valley, South Australia. It is Australia's most famous and largest winery. It is considered a symbol of Australian wine, and some people call it a nobleman in the Australian wine industry.
The founder of Penfolds Winery is a young doctor from the United Kingdom-Christophe Rosen Penfolds. In 1844, when he was about to leave the UK and head to Australia, he obtained some of the vine vines in southern France at that time and took it to Adelaide in South Australia. In 1845, he planted these saplings in Magill, a suburb of Adelaide for brewing pharmaceutical wines, and cultivated grapes in the tradition of southern France. He built a small stone house in the center of the vineyard. Their couple called the small stone house Grange, which means farm in English. This is also the origin of the Grange series, the most famous wine in the future. In today's market, wine has become the target of many wine collectors competing for acquisition.
Penfold Winery has purchased a number of top vineyards in South Australia successively based on its accurate vision over the past 100 years as a stable source of mixed wine. From the Eden Valley on the east side of the Barossa Valley to the Coonawarra Valley on the southeast side of Australia, it can even be seen in the southern island of Tasmania Vineyard with "Penfolds" signature.
"From 1844, mellow and timeless" is a slogan that inherits the art of winemaking. It combines enthusiasm, responsibility, courage and patience. Nowadays, the inheritance of such art of winemaking is flourishing all over the world. For more than 170 years, Penfolds has given the winery countless honors for its excellent winemaking art, and these honors come from high-quality vineyards, superior winemaking resources and outstanding winemakers. Penfolds winemaking art has been inherited to this day and has become one of Australia's most respected wineries.
