90/100
4 Stars
Huon Hooke
Black olive, toasty smoky oak and barrel ferment aromas. Smoky bacon. Palate is full-bodied, rich and soft, fleshy and rounded; pillowy. Massive tannins and big fat broad flavour. Lacks finesse. Unbalanced: huge grip!
Tasted: 27/09/2007
Drink: N/A
Penfolds' most impressive Cabernet Sauvignon is the 1994 Bin 707. This murky plum-colored, blockbuster, backward, exceptionally tannic Cabernet displays abundant quantities of blackberry and cassis fruit, a heavy overlay of toasty vanillin from new oak casks, and mouthsearing levels of tannin. Although the wine is closed, it is firmly-structured and enormously-endowed in the mouth. Cellar this offering for 2-4 years, and consume it over the following 15+.Source: Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) February, 1998 by Robert Parker
note: this bottle may seep a bit during shipping, which is normal for older or ullaged bottles