Penfolds Lunar New Year Bin 389 South Australia Cabernet Shiraz 2019 The great Australian blend from the great Australian winery, the Penfolds Bin 389 is often called Baby Grange. These big babies are dressed to celebrate Lunar New Year with a specially designed label and presentation box. Lunar New Year, Year of the Tiger magnums are strictly limited, only available while stocks last. Whether you give this as a gift to others or to your own cellar, it's a must share with friends and family over dinner. Buy two and open one this year and then a second in twelve years time when the year of the tiger rolls around once more. Bin 389 is the quintessential expression of the Penfolds red wine style. Typically it is fresh, generous and buoyant with ripe dark chocolate, dark berry fruit, beautifully extracted flavours, fine-grained tannins and underlying new oak characters. First produced in 1960, Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz is nicknamed Poor Mans Grange or Baby Grange and is one of Australias great cellaring red wines. Bin 389 is matured in a combination of new and one and two year old American "ex Grange and Bin 707" hogsheads for 18 months. The best vintages can develop and improve for decades.

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Appearance: dark, opaque with purple hues. Nose: cherry, ripe red fruits and liquorice. Palate: fresh, inviting with dark summer fruit, hints of olive tapenade and a savoury finish.