2020 Penfolds - RWT Bin 798 Shiraz - WoO Barossa Valley

Decanter.com – 94 pts – DS: *The orchestra strikes with big volume on entry, announcing this as a very dark, very plush composition. There’s quite a bit of bustle and bluster to work through with the crowd of bold blackberry, bramble, blueberry, high violets, wild raspberry and dark plum notes, and it only softens into a savoury embrace after an age in the glass. The big architecture of oak and tannin that contains this wine only reveals itself at the finish, suggesting a long life ahead (…).* - 06/2022

Falstaff Magazin – 96 pts – PM: *Dunkles Rubingranat, tiefer Kern, violette Reflexe, dezente Ockerrandaufhellung. Feiner Edelholztouch, schwarze Waldbeeren, kandierte Orangenzesten, Brombeeren. Komplex, mineralisch, salzig unterlegte Kirschenfrucht, präsente Holzwürze, bleibt gut haften, noch sehr verschlossen und unnahbar, rotbeeriger Rückgeschmack, braucht sehr viel Zeit. (2030 – 2045).* - 07/2022

The Wine Advocate – 98 pts – EL: *The 2020 RWT Shiraz Bin 798 is a powerhouse of bloody fruit and firm tannin. It veritably explodes from the blocks, showing plum skin, raspberry leaf, blackberry, mulberry, lashes od salted licorice and renderes lamb fat. I am coming to love (in a big and serious way) the Barossa Shiraz‘ bottlings from 2020 – the year was significantly down in yields, warm and dry, and responsible for wines of muscle, density and gravitas. So, too, for this wine. Excellent.*

JancisRobinson.com – 17,5/20pts – RH: *Aged 16 months in French oak (49% new). Knee-weakening fruit – such purity and juiciness. Plenty of chewy tannin, but this is highly drinkable even now. However, there's no doubt that the best is yet to come in terms of complexity.* - 07/2022

JamesSuckling.com – 98 - NS: *This is a wonderful Bin 789 with striking poise, polish and intensity on offer. Show-stopping aromas of ripe blackberry, dark plum and espresso are primal and freshly captured. The palate is rich and lusciously expressed, with a very plush and intense core of ripe blackberry and dark-plum fruit. Roasted coffee here, too. Such poise and polsih. Drink over the next decade or more.*