{"id":3323,"date":"2011-08-25T21:38:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2011-08-25T21:38:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T21:38:46","slug":"the-50th-vintage-of-penfolds-bin-28-kalimna-shiraz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/australia\/the-50th-vintage-of-penfolds-bin-28-kalimna-shiraz","title":{"rendered":"The 50th vintage of Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0776-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3330\" title=\"penfoldsbin28\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0776-1.jpg\" alt=\"penfoldsbin282008\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0776-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0776-1-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0776-1-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMGP0776-1-400x264.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early in my wine drinking journey, I was heavily influenced by the Penfolds bin series reds &#8211; 28, 128 and 389. Grange, although cheap by today&#8217;s standards at \u00a335, was a bit out of my league.<\/p>\n<p>Bin 28 is named Kalimna after the famed vineyard in the Barossa bought by Penfolds in 1945, although today it&#8217;s a multiregion blend in the Penfolds style. It&#8217;s the oldest of the bin series wines, and with the 2008 release it celebrates 50 vintages.<\/p>\n<p>This is a really rich, ripe wine of real impact, but it has the potential to age and is nicely defined. And at a retail price of \u00a312, it punches well above its weight. You could buy three of these, drink one now, and forget about the others for a decade &#8211; and be pleasantly surprised when you dig them out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz 2008 South Australia<br \/>\n<\/strong>14.5% alcohol. 12 months in American oak. Rich, ripe, sweet blackberry and blackcurrant fruit with good structure and concentration as well as a rich, almost lush texture. The oak is well integrated. Seductive and well balanced despite the size, this avoids spoofiness and may well age nicely. 90\/100<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.penfolds.com\/idc\/groups\/public\/@web-penfolds-general\/documents\/webcontent\/fgl_454206.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Technical fiche here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this wine with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wine-searcher.com\/index.lml?referring_site=WAN\" target=\"_blank\">wine-searcher.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in my wine drinking journey, I was heavily influenced by the Penfolds bin series reds &#8211; 28, 128 and 389. Grange, although cheap by today&#8217;s standards at \u00a335, was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[366,51],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","tag-australia","tag-shiraz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}