2014 Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz
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Acidity 6.7 g/l, pH 3.59. 14 months in French oak (30% new, 13% one year old, 4% two year old) and American oak hogsheads and puncheons (30% new, 16% one year old, 7% two year old). This will be aged exclusively in puncheons in a few years’ time. Bottled from 2008 with much of the fruit effectively declassified Grange. Generous and spicy on the nose. Then real structure and life. Glossy stuff. For now and the future. So neat! 14.5%
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Jancis Robinson MW
James Halliday
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Deep garnet-purple colored, the 2014 Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz offers classic Maranaga notes of baked berries, preserved plums and blueberry pie with incense, mincemeat, licorice and spice box hints. Full-bodied and concentrated, it’s wonderfully rich and spicy in the mouth with velvety tannins and great length. This is beautifully expressive of the sub-region.
Acidity 6.7 g/l, pH 3.59. 14 months in French oak (30% new, 13% one year old, 4% two year old) and American oak hogsheads and puncheons (30% new, 16% one year old, 7% two year old). This will be aged exclusively in puncheons in a few years’ time. Bottled from 2008 with much of the fruit effectively declassified Grange. Generous and spicy on the nose. Then real structure and life. Glossy stuff. For now and the future. So neat! (JR)
A relatively recent arrival into the Penfolds Bin range, and has been a success from the outset. A dense and rich full-bodied shiraz, with a phalanx of purple and black fruits framed by 14 months maturation in French and American oak. Ripe tannins put the seal on the future of a long-lived wine. Sep 2016, www.winecompanion.com.au, Drink: 2016-2039
About the producer
Penfolds is Australia’s most famous wine producer, known best for their iconic top wine, Grange. First produced commercially in 1952, Grange has since gone on to become one of the world’s most famous fine wines. In 2001, the wine was listed as an Australian heritage icon.