2021 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon

Just love this wine, so bedded down and young, but clear in its potential. It takes the heart of Cabernet Sauvignon and distils it, intensifies it, wraps up the mint leaf and the liqourice and lifts it on a bed of measured acidity and pure cassis. Fine tannins - there are tons of them but you rarely feel them. Unfined and unfiltered. A vintage with tiny berries and thick skins, so they took cut down on maceration time to keep the emphasis on this purity of expression. There was no Bin 707 or 169 in 2020 because of wildfires, so this is the first in two years. 100% new American oak, barrel fermented. Peter Gago chief winemaker.
98/100 Jane Anson

The 2021 Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon was sourced from Coonawarra (55%), Barossa Valley (32%), and Wrattonbully (13%), and it was aged for 16 months in 100% new American oak hogsheads. It has a deep garnet-purple color and the nose opens with profound scents of crème de cassis, juicy blackberries, and warm, ripe plums, followed by hints of dried mint, dark chocolate, cedar, sassafras, and vanilla pod. Full-bodied, the palate is surprisingly graceful, bright, refreshing, and refined, with bags of energetic fruit and a very long, spicy finish.
97/100 Lisa Perrotti-Brown; The Wine Independent

This was released in late January. An incredibly pure, precise and focussed wine, charged with bright, crisp, crunchy fresh berry fruit and fifty shades of Cabernet cassis. Tensile tannins, with grain but exquisite finesse. Lots of menthol, a little eucalyptus and incense. This is vivid, vibrant, energetic and dynamic in its clarity and luminosity. A tidal wave of fresh berries. The fruit is tightly coiled and strapped to the well-defined, chiselled backbone. It glides over the palate, glistening as it does so and releasing little eddies and undercurrents of fresh fruit and juicy sapidity. The oak is almost imperceptible and this is remarkably accessible already. Great indeed.
98/100 Colin Hay; The Drinks Business