*Minor LabelDamage, Just Below Base of Neck

Bin 389 is the quintessential expression of the Penfolds red wine style. Typically it is fresh, generous and buoyant with ripe dark chocolate, dark berry fruit, beautifully extracted flavours, fine-grained tannins and underlying new oak characters. First produced in 1960, Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz is nicknamed Poor Mans Grange or Baby Grange and is one of Australias great cellaring red wines. Bin 389 is matured in a combination of new and one and two year old American “ex Grange and Bin 707” hogsheads for 18 months. The best vintages can develop and improve for decades.

Vintage: 1984

Vineyard Notes: Barossa Valley, Coonawarra, McLaren Vale Vintage Notes

Ageing

Matured in new, one and two-year-old American oak barrels for 16 months, including all those that held the previous vintage of Penfolds Grange.

Producer Tasting Notes

COLOUR Deep red. NOSE Dark chocolate, plummy, loamy aromas with some demi-glace, mint notes. PALATE The palate is well focused with lovely strength and density of fruit. There are still some primary blackberry characters intertwined with evolved chocolaty, meaty demi-glace fruit and savoury, malty oak. It finished with pronounced sappy firmness. Very strong, muscular wine with plenty of fruit volume.