90/100
4 Stars
Huon Hooke
Black olive, toasty smoky oak and barrel ferment aromas. Smoky bacon. Palate is full-bodied, rich and soft, fleshy and rounded; pillowy. Massive tannins and big fat broad flavour. Lacks finesse. Unbalanced: huge grip!
Tasted: 27/09/2007
Drink: N/A
90 Points Robert Parker
Penfolds'' most impressive Cabernet Sauvignon is the 1994 Bin 707. This murky plum-colored, blockbuster, backward, exceptionally tannic Cabernet displays abundant quantities of blackberry and cassis fruit, a heavy overlay of toasty vanillin from new oak casks, and mouthsearing levels of tannin. Although the wine is closed, it is firmly-structured and enormously-endowed in the mouth. Cellar this offering for 2-4 years, and consume it over the following 15+.
Source: Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) by Robert M. Parker, Jr. January, 1998
95 Points James Halliday
Deep purple-red; a wonderfully fragrant, powerful and intense aroma proclaiming Cabernet Sauvignon at the height of its youthful power leads on to a formidable palate, crammed with fruit and oak, but with tannins to lose (as the Californians are fond of saying). Needs years to begin to give of its best but will sweep all before it before it is finished in its show career. Top gold medal winner at the 1997 Sydney Wine Show. Drink to 2020.
James Halliday. January, 2022
Penfolds' most impressive Cabernet Sauvignon is the 1994 Bin 707. This murky plum-colored, blockbuster, backward, exceptionally tannic Cabernet displays abundant quantities of blackberry and cassis fruit, a heavy overlay of toasty vanillin from new oak casks, and mouthsearing levels of tannin. Although the wine is closed, it is firmly-structured and enormously-endowed in the mouth. Cellar this offering for 2-4 years, and consume it over the following 15+.Source: Robert Parker (Wine Advocate) February, 1998 by Robert Parker
note: this bottle may seep a bit during shipping, which is normal for older or ullaged bottles