First time up for a Penfolds wine and this one is not altogether glowing...
Whilst enjoyable, it did take an awfully long time to open up and remained quite earthy and acidic for a good few hours.
Seemingly typical of Penfolds Bin range, this wine had a lot of the characteristic 'Earthy' or 'Dusty' notes that seem to permeate the brand.
After about three hours, the berries (mainly blackcurrent) came out and the wine was smooth and velvety, though unfortunately, it took that long and half the bottle was gone before I really started to enjoy this wine.
Perhaps this is the mark of a good wine that is drunk before it's prime?
I cooked up a steak and that made the wine suddenly taste like liquid gold. There is definitely something to be said for food matching and wine.
Still, my first impressions were that this was nothing of note. It exudes class, butit really does require patience to drink.
On the whole, I wont bag it, but I can't rate it too highly either...
Drinkability 90
Value 87
Price $22 Kemenys
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