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 ... ...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 2002 vintage but I can confirm that while visiting a wine tasting event that the 2003 is pretty damn fine ...
zallin 20.07.2007
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