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2001 Penfolds Bin 389

Cabernet-Shiraz Blend

  • Australia
  • South Australia
Drink between 2007 - 2018 (Edit)
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Community Tasting Notes 99

  • twing Likes this wine: 92 points

    March 22, 2024 - Good colour for it's age with just a touch of brick to edge.
    Lovely inviting lush mellow nose, great complexity of developed black cherry & currant along with spice, violet & pencil shavings. Palate is full & round with great balance, fine grained tannins giving that awesome texture, long finish. An excellent bottle!
    Next day, still in fine shape,such an enjoyable wine. So rewarding, this is what cellaring is all about!

  • richard thorne wrote: 94 points

    September 24, 2023 - Amazing that this continues to improve. (See my notes of 7.9.2011 and 11.28.2008) A really lovely, balanced wine, with power. Decanted 2 hours (broken, crumbly cork so filtered as well) but just as good the following day.

  • rspenz wrote: 88 points

    June 17, 2023 - Suboptimal cellar conditions. Typical blackcurrants, cigar box, earth. But flat, lacking intensity.

  • JohnLI Likes this wine: 91 points

    December 25, 2022 - Similar comments to others. Cherry and black currants with a little stewed fruit too. Good acidity and integrated tannins and medium length palate. Drinking well now and over the next couple of years. Again shows how well good Australian wines can age. Went well with Christmas beef and chicken.

  • StefanAkiko wrote: 85 points

    August 20, 2022 - Dark purple.
    Big nose of Bassett's All Sorts liquorice and anise in combo with a few whiffs of CS fruit. Young.
    In the mouth, this is smooth, extensive with good acids, slightly less tannins than it needs and a very strange perfume that makes the wine quite difficult to drink without food. (The wife simply put the glass away and instead talked dreamily about Mollydooker.)
    There may have been something wrong with our bottle, because we can't rave about this one...

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  • By Campbell Mattinson
    1/1/2005 (link)

    (Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz) Subscribe to see review text.

Vinous

  • By Stephen Tanzer
    July/August 2004, IWC Issue #115 (link)

    (Penfolds Wines Cabernet Shiraz Bin 389 Barossa Valley) Subscribe to see review text.

Halliday Wine Companion

  • By James Halliday
    3/30/2004 (link)

    (Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz) Subscribe to see review text.

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  • By Jancis Robinson, MW
    9/1/2003 (link)

    (Penfolds, Bin 389 Cabernet/Shiraz South Australia Red) Subscribe to see review text.

Wine Definition

  • Vintage 2001
  • Type Red
  • Producer Penfolds
  • Varietal Cabernet-Shiraz Blend
  • Designation Bin 389
  • Vineyard n/a
  • Country Australia
  • Region South Australia
  • SubRegion n/a
  • Appellation n/a
  • UPC Codes 012354071209, 3320797008896, 9310297003181, 9310297005581, 9310297007141, 9310297015726, 9313460003162

Community Holdings

  • Pending Delivery 6 (0%)
  • In Cellars 1,139 (60%)
  • Consumed 767 (40%)

Food Pairing

Community Recommendations

Beef, Duck, Game Veal, Veal

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100% Like It  39 votes

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