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Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon 2018

Penfolds , South Australia, Australia

Penfolds
South Australia Australia
  • 92
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  • Country ranking ?

    229

  • Producer ranking ?

    158

  • Decanting time

    2h

  • When to drink

    2020-2035

  • Food Pairing

    Lamb

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Vintage 2018

AUSTRALIA: Very promising quality with the most optimistic reviewers declaring 2018 great in every region and for every variety. The more cautious view is that early frosts reduced yields, but that consistent good weather throughout the second half of the growing season actually resulted in great potential.

Barossa 2018 vintage to savor

The 2018 Barossa vintage was completed at the end of April 2018, with growers and winemakers satisfied...

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A blend of Cabernet from Coonawarra, Wrattonbully, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley, Padthaway and Robe, which spent 12 months in French and American hogsheads. 21% of the French was new and 9% of the American.

I'm always keen to talk to Peter Gago about the 407 because it is the one Penfold's wine that I simply do not get. I fail to see the point and unfortunately, this release is no different. The inaugural release, 1990, was a superb Cabernet. 1996 also impressed, but other than that, I do not recall another 407 providing any excitement. Not that they are bad wines, but there is none of the thrill, the precision, the excitement that one finds with so many of the Collection wines.

Discussion of price is usually limited to the Grange and perhaps a few of the other elite red releases, but, and I say this in the full knowledge that Penfold's have no difficulty selling all the 407 they make and that they receive no complaints about the price, for me, that this wine has now edged higher than Bin 389 is utterly baffling. It makes as much sense as someone asking more for their Village Burgundy than one pays for La Tache. If wines like Bin 138 and 389 overdeliver for their prices, 407 is the reverse. 

The nose, slightly muted. Cherries, a little dusty and the integration of the oak is not as immaculate as we have encountered throughout the Collection. A hint of tomato bush, but overall, flavours are somewhat muddled. There is length but again, less so than one would wish. A touch clumsy and lacking focus. 87. It is possible that I am perhaps a little harsher on this wine than I would be if tasted in isolation, and that its perceived shortcomings are highlighted by the wealth of quality which surround it, but it does nothing for me.

 

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  • 87p

Deep crimson. Fragrant lifted blackcurrant pastille, herb garden/ bay leaf/ mint aromas with mocha notes. Generous fruit sweet blackcurrant espresso herb aniseed flavours, persistent grippy fine tannins, mocha roasted walnut notes and long fresh underlying acidity, Finishes leafy firm with plentiful dark berry fruits. Neatly balanced wine. Seal; screwcap Drink 2024-2038 14.5% 94 points.
 
A robust but expressive cabernet with classical varietal definition, fruit complexity, richness and vinosity. Keep for a few years to allow the elements to fold into each other.
 
Coonawarra, Padthaway, Wrattonbully, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley Robe
 
12 months in 21% new French, 9% new American and 70% seasoned oak hogsheads

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Origin

Magill, South Australia

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