1966 Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Hermitage – South Australia ★★★★★
G 93
Medium-deep brick crimson. Intense but slightly muddy redcurrant, walnutty, polished mahogany, leather aromas with liquorice notes. Touch of VA. Well concentrated curranty wine with roasted walnut, liquorice all sorts, sweet fruit, leather polish herb sage flavours, fine slightly fractured chalky tannins, underlying sweet vanilla oak notes. Chalky firm slightly chewy sinewy finish. Beginning to fade. Rare. 88% Shiraz, 12% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now–2028, 13.4% alc Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley)/Barossa Valley/Magill Estate (Adelaide)/ Morphett Vale (Adelaide). Released as Bin 95 (also as Bins 71 and 72).
1967 Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Hermitage – South Australia ★★★★
G 92
Deep crimson. Intense dark chocolate, dark cherry, roasted walnut vanilla aromas with nutmeg spice, polished leather notes. Generous, inky and supple with roasted walnut redcurrant, dried mushroom, leather spice tawny amontillado crème brûlée flavours, fine sinewy dry chalky tannins, attractive mid-palate richness and long integrated mineral acidity. Finishes chalky al dente firm with long supple lacy inky graphite plume. 94% Shiraz, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon. Drink now–2028, 12.7% alc Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley)/Barossa Valley/Clare Valley/Magill Estate (Adelaide). Won the Jimmy Watson Trophy at the Melbourne Show in 1968, the second time in three years. Released as Bin 95 (also Bin 74). 1968 Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Hermitage – South Australia ★★ Some bottles holding but mainly past. Drink up. 94% Shiraz, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon. Past, 12.1% alc. Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley)/Barossa Valley/Magill Estate (Adelaide)/ Clare Valley/Adelaide Hills/Coonawarra. Released as Bin 95 (also as Bin 826). 1969 Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Hermitage – South Australia ★ Never a great Grange year and well past its best. Drink up. 95% Shiraz, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon. Past, 12.4% alc Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley)/Barossa Valley/Magill Estate (Adelaide)/ Clare Valley/Morphett Valle (Adelaide)/Coonawarra. Released as Bin 95 (also as Bin 826).
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