Ranked #3 of 23 2010 Shiraz from Coonawarra
95/100
5 Stars
Huon Hooke
Deep, bright red/purple hue. Ripe, floral, cherry eau-de-vie aroma, red and darker fruits, bright and fresh and clean. Fruit-driven, the youngest wine of the group and doesn't show overt oak (nor do any of the earlier vintages). Great intensity of flavour, marvellous fruit of pin-point ripeness, and the structure is spot-on. Marvellous wine. This will probably last for 50 years, like the 1963.
Tasted: 01/08/2012
Drink: 2015 to 2035
"Penfolds has been making Bin 128 since 1962. From the 1980 vintage onwards it’s been matured in all French oak. A single region wine, in French oak (32 percent new), and now released out-of-vintage-step from the other bins. It’s something of an oddfellow of the Penfolds bin range, and tends to divide Penfolds loyalists accordingly.
Nice release. Clearly it was a year where Coonawarra shiraz got good and ripe. Lots of spice here too – five spice more than pepper. Sweet kirsch, plums and raspberries. Gentle meatiness. Sweet musky oak on the finish. Neat and clean. One of those ‘precision engineering’ wines. Fresh, bright fruit with a smidge of oak. Accomplished, appealing red wine."
Rated : 92+ Points
Alcohol : 14.5%
Closure : Screwcap
Drink : 2016 - 2024+
Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front, 24 February 2012