2006 Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon

Perfectly cellared, we’ve opened many of these in the restaurant and they have all been wines of the night!

Bin 707 is Penfolds' Cabernet Sauvignon version of Grange: ripe, intensely-flavoured fruit; completing fermentation and maturation in new American oak; fully expressing a Penfolds understanding of multi-vineyard, multi-region fruit sourcing. Named by an ex-Qantas marketer, Bin 707 was first vintaged in 1964. The wine was not made from 1970 to 1975 when fruit was directed to other wines, nor in 1981, 1995, 2000 or 2003 (when fruit of the required style and quality was not available). Fullbodied and with proven cellaring potential, Bin 707 has a secure place among the ranks of Australia's finest Cabernets.

Peter Gago - Penfolds Chief Winemaker on the 2006 Vintage
"Yet again Bin 707 undisputedly retains its Grange of Cabernet mantra - the 2006 vintage will certainly hold its own in any Bin 707 vertical!"

96 Points - James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion (Tasted 11 Mar 2009)
An effortlessly luxuriant and pure wine, with juicy blackcurrant and cassis fruit supported by positive, but fine and ripe tannins; only Penfolds can use 100% American oak to such good effect. Great 707.

17.5+ - Jancis Robinson (Tasted 20 May 2009)
Coonawarra, Barossa and Adelaide Hills! A Cabernet Sauvignon to trounce terroiristes. 100% new US oak. They didn't release the wine in 2000 and 2003 because they felt the fruit couldn't take 100% new oak. You love or loathe this wine,' says Gago. 'Lots of people dislike the blending and the US oak, though the barrels are made in Australia.'
Very dark purple. Leather and savour and 'a very alternative form of Cabernet'. A little awkward and lean in the middle at the moment. Very muscular – but much more intense than most Coonawarra Cabernets. Opened out in the glass – less angular. (JR)