2003 Penfolds Grange Bin 95 Shiraz $485.00
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Winery notes: The 2003 vintage was sourced from vineyards located in Barossa Valley, Coonawarra, McLaren Vale and Magill. Made from a blend of 97% Shiraz and 3% Cabernet Sauvignon, the wine was matured for 15 months in new American oak hogsheads.
The 2003 vintage was initially warm and dry, becoming milder later in the season. These conditions prompted an early start of harvest with the fruit reaching optimum ripeness evenly. The vintage produced Shiraz with dense colour, impressive varietal characters and soft tannins.
Deep red colour. The nose is captivating, complex and complete. Unraveling aromatics unfurl with air - blue fruit notes entwined with barrel ferment and maturation elements; nothing singular, always in tandem. Sweet soy, cola and quince paste high notes escape from an ethereal layer (aniseed, fennel and fresh treacle ginger pudding) wafting above. The palate displays dark and liqueur chocolate, laced with Moroccan spices. An underlying tar/graphite blackness is lifted by derived fruit/quince pie flavours - a few years earlier they may have been more brashly varietal and elemental. Pronounced tannins sweep across the palate, although they are certainly part of the wine, never obtrusive. Long, layered and compelling, this wine is at the spicier end of the Grange spectrum. Drink 2012 to 2038

A very ripe, assertive, profoundly structured and traditional warm year Grange whose dark, brooding and brambly fruit and lavish oak are supported by drying, firm and chalky tannin. It's still a bruising young wine, with a surprisingly floral and heady, jasmine like bouquet and dense layers of blackberries, blueberries, cassis and dark plums backed by smoky, meaty, dark chocolate and cedary influences. As it opens further, nuances of treacle, aniseed and graphite slowly emerge. Firm and dense, its palate simply drips with concentrated flavour, finishing with the length and balance expected of this label. Drink 2023-2033+ 96/100 - Jeremy Oliver

2005 Penfolds Bin 707 $149.95 
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Tremendous wine. I love the long, lingering, tannic power of this - this is a super-thruster of a wine. It's long and serious, blue-black in colour, rich in saturated blackcurrant-like flavour and boosted by flavour of licorice, mocha and chocolate. This was matured in 100 percent new American oak hogsheads, but the fruit is more than a match for it. Stunning - and further evidence that Bin 707 has come of age. RRP $175.00. Drink: 2025-2040. 97 points. Campbell Mattinson - Winefront

Bin 707 goes rich and rustic. Saturated with luscious flavours of dark berries, plums and cassis, this super (but not over) ripe cabernet is handsomely oaked and impressively supported by firm, almost raw-edged and chalky tannin. A violet-like perfume lifts its aroma, while its spectrum of fruit encompasses nuances of prunes, currants and dark olives as well as undertones of dried herbs. It finishes long, polished and slightly meaty, with a lingering presence of plush, concentrated liqueur-like fruit, cocoa and mocha. 18.8/95
Drink 2017-2025 - Jeremy Oliver

2005 Penfolds RWT Shiraz $134.95
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Penfolds RWT Barossa Shiraz 2005 (RRP $160): When I was writing about this in the Big Red Wine Book I called this "seductive, but not at all tarty". Re-tasting it now I can see what I meant. It's a luscious, sweet-centered, bold wine, jammed full of blue berried fruit and clipped with toasty, cedary, creamy oak. This too is fragrant and full, its violetty aromatics and power through the finish clear signals of its outstanding quality. This is a champion wine, for the long haul. Drink: 2015-2025. 97 points. Campbell Mattinson - Winefront

A joyful, vibrant and supple shiraz whose open and uncomplicated expression of pristine blackberry, cassis and plum-like flavour is lifted by a spicy perfume and the handsome mocha and vanilla presence of new fine-grained French oak. Juicy without being jammy, it’s smooth and approachable, with a finely crafted, willowy backbone of velvet tannin. Barossa Valley, 18.9/96, drink 2013-2017 - Jeremy Oliver

2005 Penfolds Magill Estate Shiraz $96.95
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Typically wild and meaty, this rustic and bony shiraz marries brambly flavours of blackberries, blackcurrant's and dark plums with powerful floral notes, exotic spices and undertones of animal hide. With a relatively light touch for such an intensely flavored shiraz, its lingering fruit and meaty, earthy undertones knit tightly with coarse linen tannins. It’s very long and harmonious, and likely to build in the bottle. Adelaide Metropolitan, 18.6/95, drink 2025-2035 - Jeremy Oliver

This is a more ribald version of Magill Estate Shiraz than we are perhaps accustomed to - it's always had quite a deal of oak thrown at it, but in this instance it carries it beautifully, and with a seductive swagger. What I particularly like is its structure: it's a very nicely formed wine, and yet the tannin is supple and smooth and beautifully integrated. It tastes of blackberries, olives, soy and smoky oak, and it finishes fresh and fruity. It's a very good Magill. Drink: 2013-2022. 94 points. Campbell Mattinson -Winefront

2004 Penfolds St Henri Shiraz $64.95
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In a word: perfumed. It washes up through your mouth in a blaze of musk and violets, its pure sweet fruitiness silken and lingering. This is gorgeously pure, and should cellar magnificently. I tasted this over a couple of days and it got better and better. If you like the St Henri style of shiraz, you cannot go wrong here. Drink: 2017-2035. 96 points. Campbell Mattinson - Winefront