Ranked #3 of 99 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon from South Australia
93/100
4.5 Stars
Huon Hooke
Deep red purple, excellent colour. Loads of mocha-like oak-infused characters on nose: chocolate, coffee and mocha. Dense, thick texture, layers of tannin but good tannins that saturate the entire palate. Very long. An idiosyncratic cabernet but profound, powerful, ageworthy, potentially excellent. Needs ages.
Tasted: 21/07/2010
Drink: N/A
92 Points Robert Parker
Bin 707 is always 100% Cabernet Sauvignon and always 100% new oak, though it is not released every year. The 2007 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon was matured 15 months in new American oak hogsheads. Very deep purple-black in color, it gives intense notes of vanilla, creme de cassis, blackberry preserves, licorice and espresso plus a bit of dark chocolate. Very crisp with a very high level of chewy tannins, the fruit is just a little ungenerous on the medium to full-bodied palate, giving a long tannin-dominated finish. With another 2 years+ in bottle, the fruit may come forward on this wine and it should drink to 2020+.
Source: Robert Parker (Robert Parker Wine Advocate) by Lisa Perrotti-Brown. December, 2010
94 Points James Halliday
Deep purple-crimson; a brooding, powerful wine, black fruits, tannins, tar and earth dominant, the normally sweetening impact of the American oak to no avail. I'm not practising as I preach in giving the wine 94 points for tomorrow not today. Drink to 2022.
James Halliday. July, 2021
RP 92+ points: Bin 707 is always 100% Cabernet Sauvignon & always 100% new oak, though it is not released every year. The 2007 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon was matured 15 months in new American oak hogsheads. Very deep purple-black in color, it gives intense notes of vanilla, creme de cassis, blackberry preserves, licorice & espresso plus a bit of dark chocolate. Very crisp with a very high level of chewy tannins, the fruit is just a little ungenerous on the medium to full-bodied palate, giving a long tannin-dominated finish. With another 2 years+ in bottle, the fruit may come forward on this wine & it should drink to 2020+.
92+ points. Source: Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) December 2010 by Lisa Perrotti-Brown