2022 Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz
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The 2022 Bin 150 Marananga Shiraz is the point in the collection where the intensity of fruit and tannin really ratchets up in volume. While the wine is silky, it is also like a bottomless pool of flavor and concentration. This doesn't feel as bombastic as some previous releases I have tasted, which is an exciting relief; there are notes of blueberry and fresh blood, raspberry, licorice, graphite, dried lavender and tobacco. This is lovely—massive, yet lovely. It was matured for 16 months in a combination of French and American hogsheads and puncheons.
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Jancis Robinson MW
Erin Larkin, Wine Advocate
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This 2022 Shiraz Bin 150 Marananga is the full package, offering exceptional intensity and depth of ripe flavor with serious tannins and structure. It radiates with blackberry, mulberry and dark chocolate lifted by cinnamon and a rich yet balanced core of larger oak vessels. It's now a wallflower, showing the intensity of the vintage with earthy cola flavors supported by strong tannins yet retaining freshness and vibrancy over a finish of incredible length. Something special.
A rare subregional wine from Penfolds. Less made than usual because of the initially dry then windy growing season. 16 months in French (18% new, 28% second use) and American (14% new, 40% second use) oak hogsheads (48%) and puncheons (52%). Very dense blackish purple. Full ripe blueberry nose with lots of sweetness and almost softness. (They source a lot of Grange material in Marananga.) Chewy spine and very fine tannins, almost powdery texture. Medium persistence. Lots of tannin on the end. Promising. (JR)
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.