Penfolds Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon 2018 is a powerful, full-bodied wine made from 100% Cabernet Sauvignon and aged exclusively in new American oak. It offers intense aromas of vanilla, bourbon, and espresso layered over rich blackcurrant, blueberry, and boysenberry fruit. The palate is taut yet luscious, featuring ripe plum, cranberry, and dark cherry flavors, with long, firm tannins and roasted coffee notes. Known for its longevity and bold structure, this wine is best enjoyed from 2025 onward and is a prime example of Penfolds’ iconic style of Cabernet.

Jamessuckling.com | JS 98
Published: Jul 22, 2020

This has a very expressive and intense feel with assertive, 100% new American oak, sitting in a bold, spicy layer with vanilla, bourbon and espresso notes, across the blueberries, blackcurrants and boysenberries. The palate has a very taut yet luscious delivery of rich plum and cranberry flavors. There?s such long and taut tannin and oak is driving this into tightly compressed shape with roasted-coffee tones to the very intense and long, ripe plums and black cherries. Powerful, commanding cabernet. This is a great Bin 707. Attractive now, but best to wait until 2025. 

The Wine Advocate | RP 97+
Published: Jul 22, 2020
Drink: 2025-2040

In case readers weren't aware, Bin 707 is always aged in new American oak, like Grange. The 2018 Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 707 features plenty of vanilla on the nose, backed by concentrated cassis fruit. It's full-bodied, velvety and richly tannic, clearly meant to have two decades (or more) of longevity. Marked by ripe fruit, a notable lack of herbaceousness, and lavish oak, it's out of step with current trends in Australian Cabernet Sauvignon, but it's no less delicious and all the more unique for that.

Decanter | D 97
Published: Jul 7, 2020
Drink: 2020-2050

It’s all about the bass. High violet notes are followed by rich, redolent black plums and tight blackberry, coming at you with a low, persistent rumble. If at first this wine appears understated and reserved, taste again and it starts to reveal much more – black olive, rhubarb, iodine, coal and slate. Still a tight-fisted velvet glove in its youth, although there’s great warmth and comfort in all these intricately meshed elements. Enjoy trying to figure out the whole delightful puzzle throughout its incredible palate length.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 14.50%
Body: Full
Oak: Oaked
Grapes: 100% Cabernet Sauvignon

Jancisrobinson.com | JR 17.5+
Published: Sep 1, 2020
Drink: 2024-2044

Super-sweet cassis fruit, plus expressive vanilla scent and high but ultra-fine tannins. There's lovely black-olive and engine-oil savouriness on the finish. Thick, dense, formidable.

Penfolds.com

Bin 707 perfectly reflects the Penfolds ‘House Style’ through a cabernet sauvignon lens: intensely-flavoured fruit; completion of fermentation and maturation in new oak; expressing a Penfolds understanding of multivineyard, multi-region fruit sourcing. Bin 707 was first vintaged in 1964. The wine was not made from 1970 to 1975 (when fruit was directed to other Penfolds wines) nor in 1981, 1995, 2000, 2003 or 2011 (when fruit of the required style and quality was not available). Full-bodied and with proven cellaring potential, Bin 707 retains a secure place among the ranks of Australia’s finest cabernets.