Sunday 30 October 2005

Tasting Notes - Penfolds Bin 128 1996

Tasted October 2005
Good solid wine in the mainstream medium bodied shiraz style. Nose of red berries and a faint whiff of vanilla - lacks some excitement. Firmer in the mouth; obvious fruit drops away a little, and the palate is quite tight and firm. Nice berries characters lurk but doesn't really win out over the firm structure and tannin. Nevertheless very well built and travelling well as a $14 wine now 9 years old.

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