1991 Penfolds Bin 389

Community Tasting Notes (10) Avg Score: 92.4 points

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  2/17/2017 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points

  Return of Shannon: Vanilla, raspberry, toast, coconut and mint. Still youthful, with good red and black fruit sweetness to compliment the oak. Still in great shape, this is ticking along really well.

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  2/10/2016 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points

  Another great dinner with Jon: Ripe red fruit on the nose, some vanilla, mint and raspberry. The palate has fruit sweetness and the vanilla oak, but there is plenty to like about this as it all feels well composed and working together. Good length.

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  2/10/2016 - JonnyG Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Night One of Two Big Sydney Extravaganzas (Sydney, Australia): An exceptionally good Cab-Shiraz blend in a very happy place: mature, gracious, supple and soft, with sweet red and blue fruit and some herbaceousness that marked it an unmistakably Aussie for me.

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  9/8/2014 - mychurch wrote: 93 Points

  Drank against the 88 Trevallon, this was equally impressive, but missed just a bit of freshness in comparison. Fully mature, with a smokey blackcurrent nose. Minty eucalyptus fruit. Just misses the total balance of the other wine, but more than made up for it with a long, smokey finish. Lovely. and a great comparison of styles.

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  8/6/2012 - graemeg wrote:

  NobleRottersSydney - Penfolds Bin 389 1988-97 (Alio's, Surry Hills): [13.5%, cork] {Stephen} A fantastic counterpoint to the 1990, this had a marginally more impressive nose and a marginally less impressive palate. If you’re being picky... Meaty nose of dark chocolate, vanilla oak, blackberries; it’s a bit darker and maltier than it’s older sibling. The palate shows just a touch of mint, along with the coffee/vanilla/blackberry flavours. The dusty tannins are a little stronger than the 1990 wine, and although it’s still medium-bodied, it’s just as even on the palate, although just a little shorter on the finish. Overall it’s a ‘darker’ wine, not shining quite so brightly, but not worse for that, just a little different. Seems like another decade won’t hurt it much either. What a remarkable pair of wines.

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