Penfolds is located in the renowned Barossa Valley region of South Australia. As Australia's most prominent wine giant, it is regarded as a symbol of Australian wine and hailed as the aristocracy of the Australian wine industry. Its extensive portfolio features numerous wines, including various Bin numbers and numerical combinations. Among them, the legendary Grange, BIN 95, stands as one of Australia's premier wines. Hailed as the “King of Australian Wines,” it received a perfect 100-point score from wine authority Robert Parker and is globally recognized as one of the most consistently exceptional wines in the world.
Bin 707 is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon grapes sourced from multiple vineyards. First released in 1964, production was halted when harvests failed to meet quality standards, with the wine now crafted only in exceptional vintages. Bin 707 can be considered the Cabernet Sauvignon counterpart to Grange, ranking among Penfolds' most renowned wines. It boasts intense, concentrated fruit flavors, a full-bodied structure, and exceptional aging potential, consistently ranking among Australia's finest classic Cabernet Sauvignons. For over 170 years, Penfolds has upheld three distinct winemaking philosophies: single vineyard, single region, and multi-vineyard blends. Its most iconic premium wines—Bin 389, Bin 407, Bin 707, and Grange—all embody this multi-vineyard approach. Grange are all multi-vineyard blends. They select the ripest, most perfect fruit to showcase the winery's artistry in blending, crafting Penfolds' unique style. Renowned for their exceptionally consistent quality, these wines successfully embody Penfolds' mastery in balancing fruit and oak flavors. Bin 707 is aged for 18 months in 100% new American oak barrels. The grapes are sourced from multiple regions—McLaren Vale, Coonawarra, Barossa Valley, Wrattonbully, Robe, and Adelaide Hills—and blended into a multi-regional cuvée.
🏅 Ken Gargett 98 pts
Opaque purple colour. The immediate impression, at this very early stage, is that the oak is stilldominating, but oak of such quality. Through it soon emerge notes of cedar, blackfruits, choco. late, spices, rich chocolate cake almost verging on suggesting this wine is more like a Cabernetdessert. Focused, balanced and extremely long, this is a cracking Cabernet. A wine for twenty tothirty years. A day later, even more impressive. Real persistence, serious concentration and yet a wine of evenmore finesse than it first seemed.
🏅 James Suckling 98 pts
This has a very expressive and intense feel with assertive, 100% new American oak, sitting in a bold, spicy layer with vanilla, bourbon and espresso notes, across the blueberries, blackcurrants and boysenberries. The palate has a very taut yet luscious delivery of rich plum and cranberry flavors. There’s such long and taut tannin and oak is driving this into tightly compressed shape with roasted-coffee tones to the very intense and long, ripe plums and black cherries. Powerful, commanding cabernet. This is a great Bin 707. Attractive now, but best to wait until 2025.
🏅 Wine Advocate 97+ pts
In case readers weren't aware, Bin 707 is always aged in new American oak, like Grange. The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 707 features plenty of vanilla on the nose, backed by concentrated cassis fruit. It's full-bodied, velvety and richly tannic, clearly meant to have two decades (or more) of longevity. Marked by ripe fruit, a notable lack of herbaceousness, and lavish oak, it's out of step with current trends in Australian Cabernet Sauvignon, but it's no less delicious and all the more unique for that.
🏅 Andrew Caillard 97 pts
Deep crimson. Elegant blackcurrant, black olive, graphite aromas with meaty, vanilla, mocha notes. Supple and weleconcentrated with attractive blackcurrant, blackberry fruits, fine graphite/ touch al dente tannins and plentiful mocha,espresso oak notes. Finishes muscular/ chewy /cedary firm and minerally. A very polished wine with lovely fruitdensity and toraue. The alter-ego of Grange with marvellous varietal definition. comolexitv. volume and drive.
🏅 Tyson Stelzer 97 pts
Inimitable Bin 707. The warm summer of 2018 has ripened a deeply coloured and confidently structured Bin 707 ofheightened fruit depth, met confidently head-on by new American oak. Blackcurrant, cassis and liquorice are deeplimpacted by high cocoa dark chocolate and freshly ground coffee.
🏅 Vinous 96 pts
Glass-staining ruby. Intensely perfumed red and dark fruit liqueur, floral oil, coconut and cured tobacco gualities on thehighly expressive nose. Offers palate-staining, stil-primary cherry-vanilla, blackcurrant, coconut and fruitcake flavorsthat are lifted and sharpened by an undercurrent of smoky minerality. Gains weight with air while retaining energy andfinishes sweet and extremely long, with reverberating cherry and floral notes and supple, slow-building tannins.
🏅 Wine Spectator 94 pts
Intense and powerful, offering a vibrant mix of Kalamata olive, gunpowder tea, toffee, Szechuan peppercorn and dark chocolate notes. The dense and toothsome huckleberry, blueberry and maraschino cherry flavors are harmonious, showing plenty of oomph through the long, velvety finish.
🏅 Wine Enthusiast 94 pts
Bin 707 is, as always, a gargantuan Cab that's still in its infancy. But all is in place for a long life in cellar, from the lucid aromas of semidried plums and berries, earthy, peppery spice, graphite and dark-chocolate oak characteristics to the fine, muscular, tannins. There's harmony throughout despite the wine's current enormity.
