Advantages: Luxurious taste, Good for special occassion, nice classy label Disadvantages: Expensive !
Sometimes I crave a rich and hugely flavoured red wine to wash me away on a luxurious wave of pleasure. One of my favourite ways of doing this is to treat my expectant palate to a bottle of Penfold?s Kalimna Bin 28 Shiraz from South Australia. Penfold?s are a very well known Australian wine maker who produce a full range of wines from the moderately priced (the Rawson?s Retreat range at around £4-5 for example) to the monstrously expensive which is represented by The Grange wine which is a famous Shiraz that retails for well over £100. Fortunately the Bin 28 is priced considerably lower at the £10-11 mark. This makes it in my opinion a special occasion or treat wine rather than a casual everyday glugger. It also tends to be widely available and I have seen it in Tesco, the Co-op and Somerfield.
The wine that I drank was from the very ...
Advantages: Inexpensive but a decent wine Disadvantages: None
LINDEMANS BIN 50 SHIRAZ 2007
Lindemans is one of South Eastern Australia's oldest and largest winemakers. For a couple of decades now it has been just about my favorite budget brand in the world. For as cheaply and readily available its basic products are, their wines are remarkably consistent. The base price of their standard line of wines is around £7, but they are usually on offer at one of the supermarkets for around £4.
That's what I paid for this bottle, the 2007 Bin 50 Shiraz from Sainsburys.
Like a lot of Australian producers that produce wines in mass quantities, Lindemans wines are probably as much a work of science as they are of art. The wine making process is fairly standardized and there is a lot of effort made to do things track the temperature of the vineyards where the grapes are growing in order to ...
Advantages: Fantastic flavour, moderate price. Disadvantages: None if consumed in moderation.
I like a nice glass of shiraz in the evenings, but finding one that I both like and can afford is not always easy. However, LINDEMANS Bin 50 Shiraz fits the bill perfectly (and it's fantastic with dark chocolate).
The grape:
Syrah, is a classic French grape used in the production of wine. The Syrah grape is known by the Australians as Shiraz (after the town of Shiraz where it supposedly originated).
The wine:
Bin 50 Shiraz 2007 is a full bodied, well balanced wine with plum and spice flavours. It is a medium wine - not overly sweet but certainly not a dry wine. This wine is a multi-region blend, but don't let that put you off, the fruit may be sourced from a range of wine growing regions but the blend is perfect. The wine is matured with American oak which makes it smell slightly like treacle.
Packaging:
The bottle is ...
treaclepins 02.08.2008
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