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PENFOLDS Bin 169 Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra 2019 Bottle
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PENFOLDS Bin 169 Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra 2019 Bottle
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PENFOLDS Bin 169 Cabernet Sauvignon, Coonawarra
Penfolds Bin 169 is a single region wine made to showcase pure Coonawarra characters of cassis and eucalypt. The wine typically shows ripe black fruit characters with vanilla oak, ripe fine-grained tannins framed in a classical structure. Bin 169 is matured in 100% new French oak for approximately 14 months.
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Expert Review
Tony Love
Penfolds’ connections with the Coonawarra region are historic, yet never stuck in the past as house styles evolve to meet contemporary tastes. This cabernet leads the way in such a journey, showcasing varietal purity with its crimson berries and delicate offsets, manifest in pretty floral aromatics, mint leaf gels and the background waft of herb garden lavender, rosemary and thyme. Then weave in a lovely wave of French oak derived baking spice, which gently transitions into a layer of finely controlled tannins in the finish. A lively, energetic, youthful and expressive wine that translates to pure delicious pleasure.
98 points, Wine Pilot (July 2022)
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James Suckling
Such impressive freshness to the aromas of pure mulberries, blackcurrants, blueberries, redcurrants and a swathe of roasting herbs, such as bay leaf and sage. Iodine and nori, too. The French oak is nicely subsumed already and there’s fruit purity that really sings here. The palate has a wealth of rich and ripe blue and black-fruit flavors with plenty of extract and depth on offer. This is an impressively bold, smoothly honed and focused cabernet. Fine, polished tannins frame the long finish. Drink over the next decade and more.
97 points, JamesSuckling.com (July 2022)
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Erin Larkin
Made only in appropriate vintages, and always from Coonwarra, the 2019 Bin 169 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon is aromatically reticent at this stage, however the power of the fruit in the mouth in unassailable. It blossoms on the back palate and shows pedigree and impressive stature. This is a supremely elegant wine of poise and detail, couched in a framework of power and dense muscly tannin. We all have our preferences between Bin 707 and Bin 169, but for me, my heart has always been with the 169. I think Cabernet deserves an elegant casing, and that is made from French oak (17 months in French oak, 56% new, to be precise). This is pure, but far too young right now. We know this has decades of graceful development ahead of it.
97+ points, Wine Advocate (July 2022)
Expert Review
Jancis Robinson MW
17 months in French oak (56% new, remainder one year old) and fruit from just a few blocks. TA 6.4 g/l, pH 3.6.
Glowing blackish crimson. Very rich and pungent with layers of melted blackcurrant cough sweets. Very long but still extremely tight. Peter Gago suggests the tannins are like ‘those mouth-watering Italian tannins’. The wine is indeed sappy. 14.5%
17.5+ points, JancisRobinson.com (July 2022)
Expert Review
Jeni Port
Another new bin number to remember. Good luck with that. The idea with Bin 169, to quote Penfolds, is “reflect a contemporary winemaking approach, emphasising both regionality and maturation of cabernet sauvignon in fine grained French oak.” It’s a different Coonawarra cabernet compared to Bin 128 in that it sees a longer stretch of time in French hogsheads (17 months) with a higher percentage of new oak (56% new). Chief winemaker, Peter Gago, also gives Bin 169 an astonishingly impressive peak drinking window stretching out to 2050. Yes, he’s that confident. We shall see. At this early stage, it’s definitely got cred. Typical cabernet notes with a strong emphasis on the grape’s down to earth, bramble, plum, black berries, dried leaf with dried herbs aplenty, not to mention baking spices of cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s soft and plummy but never overbearing, rather it displays a fine sophistication. Everything is in its place and that applies to the unusually high percentage of new oak which is slurped right up, and the attractive velvety tannins it brings to the wine. Can’t wait to see how it ages.
96 points, Wine Pilot (July 2022)
Expert Review
Campbell Mattinson
The herb notes come straight at you but then the fruit, wow the fruit, it’s a surging wave. Blackcurrant, mint and woodsmoke in pure, commanding, swashbuckling form. Completely authoritate and completely convincing. Waves of tannin back up the waves of flavour, the whole swept along, and yet for all its power and might there’s both light and shade; freshness even. Brilliant wine. Both a waterfall of flavour and the walk there and back.
96 points, The Wine Front (July 2022)
Expert Review
Andrew Caillard MW
Deep colour. Wax polish, dark chocolate, blackcurrant, roasted chestnut hint tobaccol leaf aromas. Supple and concenrated with plentiful pure blackcurrant, blackberry, mulberry and some dark chocolate chinotto fruits, fine slinky grainy textures, pronounced vanilla/roasted chestnut notes and persistent fresh juicy acidity. A high-pitched structure, but the elements should fold into each other with some bottle age. It should be worth the wait. A classic claret style. 17 months in French oak (56% new, 44% one-year-old) oak hogsheads. Drink 2024-2040. 14.5% alc
95 points, The Vintage Journal Penfolds Collection 2022 (July 2022)
Expert Review
Angus Hughson
The 2019 Bin 169 is a beautifully pristine and pure Coonawarra Cabernet that was matured for 17 months in 56% new French Oak hogsheads. It offers up a classic regional expression. Aromas with pinpoint focus display a breath-taking start with leafy cassis, blackberry and cedar aromas nicely interwoven with high quality oak, extraordinary underlying energy and vitality. A delightful seamlessness between mouthcoating tannins and impressive violet and cranberry flavours follow with impeccable balance also on display. With incredible length, this Coonawarra classic will deliver for many years to come.
96 points, Vinous (July 2022)
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Decanter
It’s a Film Noir – surprisingly lean in the opening scene, but then it pans out on the wide screen to reveal a full, vivid colour spectrum. As shades of raspberry, blueberry, bay leaf, nutmeg and dusty red earth become noticeable, the flavour line remains long, lean and controlled. Its tight tannic finish suggests an especially long life in the cellar. Released at A$300/bottle.
95 points, David Sly, Decanter (June 2022)
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Huon Hooke
Deep, dark red-purple colour, the bouquet reserved and only gently herbal, not really singing on the day, while the palate is very dry and savoury, soft but very ample tannins seeming to shroud the fruit at this time. The length is good albeit dominated by the tannins. This needs a decant and a good airing.
93 points, The Real Review (June 2022)
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Tyson Stelzer
The tightly-coiled reluctance of great cabernet in its youth brings great anticipation, and there is a classical confidence to this release. Textbook blackcurrants, cassis and cedar are wrapped generously in folds of firm, fine tannins and dark chocolate French oak (56% new). Grand line and length are set to carry it long and strong indeed. Patience is mandatory, and this is a vintage set to go down among the greats.
97 points (July 2022)
Expert Review
James Halliday
Matured for 17 months in French hogsheads (56% new, 44% 1yo). The excellent quality of the 2019 Coonawarra vintage comes through in this classic cool-climate cabernet sauvignon. Cassis/blackcurrant is the driver, and persistent but fine and savoury tannins the engine for long distance travel. A wine for generational pleasure.
97 points, Wine Companion (July 2022)
Penfolds
Penfolds is one of the world’s most celebrated winemakers with an enviable reputation for quality at every price level. Christopher Rawson Penfold began it all in 1844. A doctor, with an eye for medicinal winemaking, he and his wife, Mary sought a new life in Australia with a vine cutting and a bold vision. The family purchased Magill, now a suburb of Adelaide, and set about inventing tonics, brandies, and fortified wines made from grapes and Australian sunshine. The Penfolds House Style emerged from this craft of fortified wine production and blending.
The success of Penfolds has been driven by a lineage of visionary winemakers who pushed innovation to bold new heights. Max Schubert, the creator of Penfolds Grange, Dr Ray Beckwith and their team pioneered: major advances in yeast technology and paper chromatography; the understanding and use of pH in controlling bacterial spoilage; the use of headed down/submerged cap fermentation and the technique of rack and return; cold fermentation practices; the use of American oak as a maturation vessel and perhaps most critically, partial barrel fermentation. The use of American oak and barrel fermentation is considered traditional Barossa winemaking practice, in large part due to the work of Penfolds.
Today, the art of blending remains integral to the Penfolds House Style - a unique combination of highly defined fruit aromas, ripe tannins, richness, power and concentration. The most powerful expression of this is the flagship, Grange, now recognised as one of the most consistent of the world’s great wines. Similarly, Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz, first released in 1960, is now considered the quintessential Australian wine blend. Improved vineyard management, site selection and winemaking brought about the subsequent releases of Penfolds wines such as Bin 707 and Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon – both highly acclaimed and collected wines to this day.
The Penfolds Philosophy is the accumulation of nearly 180 years of shared knowledge and continual refinement. This began with Dr Christopher and Mary Penfold, continued with Max Schubert, Ray Beckwith and generations of Penfolds winemakers leading to the current winemaking team, led by Peter Gago. Their commitment to constantly improving their work, whilst honouring the winemaking techniques of their predecessors, contributes to the consistency of style and quality that Penfolds is known for around the world.
