1999 Penfolds Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 407

Community Tasting Notes (12) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  1/26/2019 - Bsmith457 wrote: 95 Points

  Unfortunately writing this after tasting three bottles with friends. Unbelievable aroma, almost didn't want to drink it. Sweet tobacco dominates. Complex yet smooth. 20 years old yet looking like it has many years ahead. The first bottle we drunk, which unfortunately destroyed the next two bottles. Dominated the conversation for the rest of the night.

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  4/2/2017 - rmarkey Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Excellent, 14% alc.
  Colour: jet black berry
  Bouquet: mint, cocoa, dark chocolate, sour black cherries, black olives, sweet oak
  Palate: mint, coffee beans, huge tannins, but reasonably soft, big body that just expands as it breathes, chocolate,licorice, spice, dry long finish.
  April 2017

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  10/7/2016 - rmarkey Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Excellent, 14% alc. Elegant, balanced.
  Colour: deep black berry
  Bouquet: mint, red and black berries, tobacco, spice, soft vanilla oak
  Palate: as bouquet and same characters are more pronounced, blackberry, dark chocolate, big soft tannins, US oak, but full bodied, herbal, very dry, fleshy, long clean soft finish,
  September 2016

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  6/20/2015 - La Cave d'Argent Likes this wine: 90 Points

  2015 Aspen Food & Wine Classic Trip; 6/17/2015-6/22/2015 (Aspen, Colorado): This well-cellared bottle (100% Cabernet Sauvignon) shows an opaque red/garnet robe, as well as plenty of black and red fruit on both the nose and palate. Fig, anise and vanilla round out the flavors and are wrapped in a full-bodied, moderately tannic frame laden with American oak. The alcohol is nicely integrated and the middle palate is solid. Perhaps the most impressive quality of this Cabernet is its long, smooth finish. Drink now-2020.

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  5/22/2014 - dtm1 wrote: 85 Points

  this wine is now well past its drinking date. opened 2 bottles. 1 cork had partially disintegrated but the other was fine. Bottle stink present. Sat in decanters for 2 hours, but wine clearly passed its drinking window

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