Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 2012

Professional Ratings

• 98 James Suckling
  Sourced from Coonawarra, Padthaway, Barossa Valley, Wrattonbully and the Adelaide Hills, this is a wine with real purpose, confidence and bold style in a very good vintage. The nose has some creamy spice and nougat oak; there's a strong savory thread with dark herbs and dark stones too, along with almost brick mortar and very dark soy, iodine, tarry notes, and black olive. It opens up with gusto, really expressive. The palate has a seam of mocha flavor and the oak is fresh, adding a crispness to the wine from the outset. The density here is striking and very compact; it strides across the palate with purpose, length and poise. The tannins are seamlessly woven together, offering admirable ageing potential. Drink in 2024.
• 95 Wine Spectator
  focused and elegant, but needs time to bring everything together. Offers deep flavors of currant, blackberry, potpourri and spice that weave together seamlessly against a gentle grip of tannins, expanding beautifully on the long and expressive finish. Best from 2017 through 2030.
• 93 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  Made from Coonawarra, Padthaway, Barossa, Wrattonbully and Adelaide Hills fruit and aged 14 months is 100% new American oak hogsheads, the deep, vibrant purple colored 2012 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon opens to lovely crème de cassis notes with some kirsch accents plus violets, cedar and menthol nuances. At the moment the oak stands out on the palate so it needs more time to integrate, but otherwise it is quite minty, has balanced acid though is very punchy and it is bursting with fruit through the very long, firm finish. Rating: 93+
• 93 Wine & Spirits
  Penfolds’ most ambitious cabernet sauvignon, this wine includes fruit from Coonawarra, Padthaway, Barossa, Wrattonbully and Adelaide Hills, finishing its fermentation in new American oak hogsheads. It includes old-vine fruit from Kalimna—Block 41 planted in 1955 and Block 42, dating to the 1880s, possibly the oldest cabernet vines in the world. That said, it’s more about power than grace for now, a sleek wine with tension in its structure and the roast coffee scents of oak dominating the finish. Brisk and gripping even after the bottle has been opened for two days, this will need a decade or more to resolve.