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PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange Shiraz, South Australia 2009 Bottle
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PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange Shiraz, South Australia 2009 Bottle
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PENFOLDS Bin 95 Grange Shiraz, South Australia
Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Shiraz is Australia's most famous wine with a reputation for superb fruit complexity and flavour richness. An exquisitely perfumed, concentrated wine, Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Shiraz combines the intensely rich fruit and ripe tannins of Shiraz with the fragrance and complementary nuances of new, fine-grained American oak. A portion of Cabernet Sauvignon is used in some years to enhance the aromatics and palate structure.
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Expert Review
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Deep ruby hue. Complex aromas of cedar chest, mulberry, blackberry and liquorice lead into a rich full bodied palate displaying deep set sweet red and black plum with nuances of cedar, liquorice and spice. Powerfully structured and seamless balanced by a backbone of beautifully polished tannins, finishing wonderfully long and persistent. Very young and elemental, yet already showing glimpses of its full potential with a great future ahead. Drink 2030-2050.
Andrea Pritzker MW
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Andrew Caillard MW
Betwixt two great Grange vintages, 2009 will always be seen as a dark horse. It reminds me of the 1963 vintage which was finally recognised during the 1990s as a great year. This is classic Grange with intense dark chocolate, dark berry, panforte, licorice aromas and meaty barrel-ferment complexity. It's robust in style with deep set panforte, dark fruit, Turkish Delight flavours, dense, chalky but sinuous textures, superb mid-palate richness and plenty of new vanilla, coconut oak notes. It finishes chocolaty-firm and sweet-fruited. Its surprisingly approachable, but this has the density, generosity, tension and structure to go the full half-century distance. 96 points, Langton's.
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Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW
The 2009 Grange Shiraz is a comprised of 84% Barossa, 8% McLaren, and a little Clare Valley and a little Magill fruit with a small 2% of cabernet sauvignon in the blend. At this youthful stage, this deep garnet-purple coloured wine puts forward a vivid expression of blackberry preserve aromas amid underlying cassis, black cherry, spice box, char-grilled meat and chocolate box notes. Surprisingly medium to full-bodied (it smells much fuller!) with taut flavours that are very closed in the mouth, it has firm, chewy tannins to structure through the long and earthy finish. Drink it 2018 to 2035+ 97 points, erobertparker.com
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Andrew Caillard MW
Betwixt two great Grange vintages, 2009 will always be seen as a dark horse. It reminds me of the 1963 vintage which was finally recognised during the 1990s as a great year. This is classic Grange with intense dark chocolate, dark berry, panforte, licorice aromas and meaty barrel ferment complexity. It's robust in style with deep set panforte, dark fruit, Turkish Delight flavours, dense, chalky but sinuous textures, superb mid-palate richness and plenty of new vanilla, coconut oak notes. It finishes chocolatey firm and sweet fruited. Its surprisingly approachable, but this has the density, generosity, tension and structure to go the full half-century distance. 96 points, Langton's.
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Campbell Mattinson
Grown in the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley and on the Magill Estate vineyard. 98% Shiraz, 2% Cabernet. 18 months in all-new American oak hogsheads. For interest’s sake: this release is more than 80% from the Barossa... Clear orange peel notes. Intense fruit. A melt of tannin. Oak makes an impression but is tremendously well integrated. Vanilla, soy, orange, saturated plum, licorice and leather. Super seductive. A sweet-fruited delicacy. Indeed for pure or indeed young-ish drinking pleasure I prefer it over the 2008. I like the highlights, the pillowy softness, the remarkable integration of fruit, oak, and tannin. This is a less caricatured Grange, less obvious, less 'heavy' and more approachable as a result.
94 points, Wine Front, Feb 2014
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James Halliday
From the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley and Magill Estate, 98% shiraz and 2% cabernet sauvignon; it finished its fermentation in 100% new American oak hogsheads and was matured therein for 18 months. Peter Gago has commented it is not as 'Barossa-ish' as the '08, and it's true the bouquet has fragrant sweet and savoury spices, the palate with licorice and black fruits, oak riding high, but guaranteed to be relegated to second place as the wine comes into balance around '30.
97 points, Wine Companion (February 2014)
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Nick Stock
A tiny 2% Cabernet component in 2009, this is sourced from the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley and Magill Estate and has spent 18 months in exclusively new American oak hogsheads. The depth and complexity on offer is straight up impressive, blue and black fruit aromas unwind, meaty at times, some dark green herbal notes and a cedary layer of oak lurking below. The palate has a core of essence-like flavour with plenty of oak-derived spice framed around blackberry, blood plum and cola. Tannins are smooth and even, flavours are gently glazed around the dark fruit spectrum, some blue fruits too. This is a wistful Grange that, as always, faithfully reflects the vintage.
95 points, jamessuckling.com (March 2014)
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Campbell Mattinson
Clear orange peel notes. Intense fruit. A melt of tannin. Oak makes an impression but is tremendously well integrated. Vanilla, soy, orange, saturated plum, licorice and leather. Super seductive. A sweet-fruited delicacy. Indeed for pure or indeed young-ish drinking pleasure I prefer it over the 2008. I like the highlights, the pillowy softness, the remarkable integration of fruit, oak, and tannin. This is a less caricatured Grange, less obvious, less “heavy”, and more approachable as a result.
94 points, The Wine Front (February 2014)
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Josh Raynolds
(98% shiraz and 2% cabernet sauvignon): Inky ruby. Intense spice- and mineral-accented aromas of cherry pit, blackberry and plum, with smoke and floral qualities adding complexity. Taut and linear on entry, then fleshier in the mid-palate, offering zesty dark fruit and violet pastille flavors and hints of licorice and vanilla. Finishes smoky, spicy and very long, with youthfully firm, building tannins adding grip. In a relatively taut, wound-up style for this wine; by all means give it some age.
94 points, Vinous (July 2014)
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Huon Hooke
Very deep red with a good purple rim; the bouquet loaded with chocolate, mocha and cocoa-powder aromas, and a hint of raisin. The wine is full-bodied and grippy, the tannins less well-tamed than in the 2010 or '08 Granges, and the wine is all-round slightly rustic and less cultured. It certainly has depth and weight and concentration, but is slightly uneven across the palate. A good Grange, merely. (2% cabernet sauvignon)
93 points, The Real Review (September 2014)
Penfolds
Penfolds is one of the world’s most celebrated winemakers with an enviable reputation for quality at every price level. Christopher Rawson Penfold began it all in 1844. A doctor, with an eye for medicinal winemaking, he and his wife, Mary sought a new life in Australia with a vine cutting and a bold vision. The family purchased Magill, now a suburb of Adelaide, and set about inventing tonics, brandies, and fortified wines made from grapes and Australian sunshine. The Penfolds House Style emerged from this craft of fortified wine production and blending.
The success of Penfolds has been driven by a lineage of visionary winemakers who pushed innovation to bold new heights. Max Schubert, the creator of Penfolds Grange, Dr Ray Beckwith and their team pioneered: major advances in yeast technology and paper chromatography; the understanding and use of pH in controlling bacterial spoilage; the use of headed down/submerged cap fermentation and the technique of rack and return; cold fermentation practices; the use of American oak as a maturation vessel and perhaps most critically, partial barrel fermentation. The use of American oak and barrel fermentation is considered traditional Barossa winemaking practice, in large part due to the work of Penfolds.
Today, the art of blending remains integral to the Penfolds House Style - a unique combination of highly defined fruit aromas, ripe tannins, richness, power and concentration. The most powerful expression of this is the flagship, Grange, now recognised as one of the most consistent of the world’s great wines. Similarly, Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz, first released in 1960, is now considered the quintessential Australian wine blend. Improved vineyard management, site selection and winemaking brought about the subsequent releases of Penfolds wines such as Bin 707 and Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon – both highly acclaimed and collected wines to this day.
The Penfolds Philosophy is the accumulation of nearly 180 years of shared knowledge and continual refinement. This began with Dr Christopher and Mary Penfold, continued with Max Schubert, Ray Beckwith and generations of Penfolds winemakers leading to the current winemaking team, led by Peter Gago. Their commitment to constantly improving their work, whilst honouring the winemaking techniques of their predecessors, contributes to the consistency of style and quality that Penfolds is known for around the world.
