Penfolds Bin 704 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon

Napa Valley Cabernet through a Penfolds lens. The Bin 704 is a mirror version of Penfolds’ world famous Bin 407 – which is a baby brother Cabernet to the legendary 707! Confused much?!

First released in 2021 this is the fourth vintage of this Californian Cabernet that has the touch of class you’d come to expect from a Penfolds release…

97/100 (Andrew Caillard MW)
“Deep crimson. Attractive dark cherry, cassis, cedar aromas with marzipan hint sage notes. Beautifully concentrated and balanced wine with ample dark cherry, blackcurrant flavours, fine chocolaty/ al dente tannins and underlying roasted chestnut vanilla notes. Leafy sapid finish with hint aniseed notes. Cabernet for cabernet lovers!”

97/100 (Tyson Stelzer)
“A Napa cabernet of towering magnitude and epic longevity. A core of deep, dark and powerful blackcurrant and blackberry delivers the impeccable ripeness of an exceptional and moderate season of long, slow ripening. French oak provides perfectly integrated and eloquent support. Fine-grained, sinewy tannins lace together an exceptional finish that will hold it sure for decades to come.”

94/100 (James Halliday’s Wine Companion)
“Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon matured for 16 months in French oak barriques (48% new). The excellent 2021 Napa vintage comes through with a bright, detailed aromatic profile of blackberry, red cherry and blackcurrant fruits, abundant spice, sage, olive tapenade, licorice, tobacco, cedar and earth. Impressive fruit depth and intensity with hints of dried meats, chocolate and dried herbs, an array of lovely fine-grained tannin making its presence felt as the wine slowly fades.”

93/100 (Huon Hooke, The Real Review)
“Saturated purple colour; the bouquet has its own set of aromas, violets, lavender, dried and fresh herbs, and the palate is leaner, tenser, more tightly focused and firm in itannins. A linear and tensioned wine that needs time to fill out. (16 months in French oak barriques, 48% new)”

Bin 704 is good to go now but really you ought to be tucking a few bottles away in the cellar, up until around 2040.