1994 Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz Magnum Winery: Penfolds Vintage: 1994 Region: Barossa Valley Bottle Size: 1500mlml Variety: Cabernet Shiraz Price: $200.00 (out of stock)

Bin 389 combines the elegance of Cabernet Sauvignon with the richness of Shiraz and demonstrates the traditional Penfolds' trademark - perfect balance between fruit and oak, to produce a wine with rich varietal characters and cellaring potential. The long Indian summer and late season in 1994 produced good quality Cabernet and Shiraz in South Australia. Carefully selected premium quality fruit together with 16 months in American oak have produced a classic wine in the traditional Bin 389 style.

Vineyard Region

Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley

Grape Variety

Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz (Syrah)

Maturation

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.

Winemaker Comments:

Phillip John

Colour

Strong deep red in colour with hints of purple on the rim.

Nose

Left standing, the complex bouquet stirs slowly revealing sweet berry and ripe plum Cabernet, mixed spices and chocolaty varietal fruit aromas, coupled with a superb foundation of coffee and vanillin oak.

Palate

The palate is unmistakably Penfolds, with its full bodied structure and complex, rich flavours featuring lusciously ripe berry, plum and dark chocolate fruit, complexed with coffee bean and generous soft rounded tannins. The wine displays delicious, textured, mouth filling flavours and excellent palate length with lingering fruit and oak characters.

Wine Analysis

Alc/Vol: 13.5%  Acidity: 6.90g/L  pH: 3.53

Last Tasted

27 Jul 2000

Peak Drinking

2001 - 2015

Food Matches

Ideally suited to Beef