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Calling all thirsty wine aficionados with a spare $168,000 to spend…The iconic Australian Penfolds releases new flagship wine! 2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon
2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon
Move over Grange, make room for a new Penfolds flagship wine… the release of the most expensive bottle of wine, the 2004 Kalimna Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon. Only a dozen available, at $168,000 per bottle. This special wine is made from grapes of a rare, single 10-acre vineyard, planted in the mid 1880’s. The vines, according to Penfolds are thought to be the oldest continuously producing Cabernet Sauvignon vines in the world! The 2004 Block 42 is only released in the best vintages.
The packaging, the story and the wine itself, extraordinary! The wine encased in a specially designed hand-blown glass “ampoule”, suspended inside a bespoke glass container. All of which sits inside a wooden cabinet. This wine can only be opened by a trained expert as there is no cork, no screw cap. Not to worry, included in the price, a senior member of Penfolds’ winemaking team will be dispatched to you. At the location of your choice, anywhere in the world. To open and decant the ampoule in a special ceremony, complete with the sampling of the wine using a specially crafted sterling silver tastevin.
BIN 389 Shiraz 2008
For those with a limited budget, we can enjoy Penfolds with the recent release here in Ontario of the BIN 389 Shiraz 2008. This wine referred to as the “Poor Man’s Grange” or “Baby Grange”. For many wine lovers, their preferred Penfolds wine, BIN 389. $39.95
Deep garnet-purple in colour, with an aroma offering up notes of mocha, cloves and chocolate over a core of blueberries and cherries, nuances of tobacco and leather. Full bodied, with lively acidity, good structure and tannins.
The Wine Ladies Pleasure Boat Cruise to include iconic Penfolds BIN 389 Cabernet Shiraz on deck!
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The Wine Ladies Salmon fishing with Penfolds wine. The Penfolds BIN 389 Cabernet Shiraz
Penfolds BIN 389 Cabernet Shiraz
1960 marks the first vintage! The Penfolds BIN 389 Cabernet Sauvignon 2008, we’ll enjoy, a superb vintage for decades!
Rock the night with fab food and great wines including a Penfolds’ wine from the iconic Australian winery, Penfolds Grange. Founded in 1844 and created by the legendary Max Schubert, the creator of Penfolds Grange.
BIN 389 is often referred to as “Poor Man’s Grange” or “Baby Grange”. The “Baby Grange” wine is matured in the same barrels that held the previous vintage Grange.
Here’s a chance to enjoy one of the legendary Penfolds’ wines, an Australian Grand Vin, the BIN 389 Cabernet Shiraz 2008. BIN 389 is produced from a selection of the best parcels from the best vineyard sites, and for many wine drinkers is their preferred Penfolds wine.
Experience and enjoy, Penfolds’, with our intimate group on the water, eating, enjoying fine wine, laughing and salmon fishing!
The Great Grange reigns! Stunning, seductive and aging with grace!
The Great Grange reigns! Stunning, seductive and aging with grace!
Those Penfolds luxury wines did not disappoint. Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 will be a day to remember. Seated at Reds Bistro for a unique tasting lead by award winning Chief Winemaker Peter Gago. Peter, bravely fought off the sniffles, not a good thing when you’re the chief leading the tasting. We were treated to an experience, with the wines showing brilliantly and the wine writers and personalities around the table sipping, slurping, commenting and busily scratching down tasting notes, prices and most importantly, availability!
In 2001, the National Trust of South Australia listed Penfolds Grange as a Heritage Icon.
Gathered together to experience this tasting, with each wine being presented with another of a previous vintage, we were all exposed to how these wines develop over a certain time period of cellaring. Anyone who thinks all Australian wines are meant for earlier consumption, you might want to reconsider! Of course these are not just ANY wines from down under. Penfolds has legs! long beautiful legs! excuse the pun.
It is the confidence of Penfolds that allows them to subject their range of wines to an independent assessment, an assessment of wine critics and writers the world over who pen their measure of and opine on the various wines and vintages of Penfolds all to appear, non edited every 5 years in “The Rewards of Patience” a book long anticipated by wine critics and lovers from around the globe. This 6th edition, launched on September 9th here in Toronto, on the 18th in Melbourne and in New York and London not until October, is a wine lovers superb reference for Penfolds; independent and honest.
The Wine Ladies With celebrity winemaker Peter Gago, Penfolds
Enjoy and experience the latter vintages of the wines we were honored to sample, here then is a list of wines to be released with dates and prices;
2005 Yattarna Chardonnay release date: November 8th, 2008 $100.00/bottle
2005 Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz release date: November 8th, 2008 $ 37.95/bottle
2004 St. Henri Shiraz release date: November 8th, 2008 $ 64.00/bottle
2005 RWT Shiraz release date: November 8th, 2008 $135.00/bottle
2005 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon release date: $120.00/bottle
2003 Grange Shiraz release date: September 10th $370.00/bottle
For precise tasting notes on all of the above please visit www.penfolds.com or treat yourself to a copy of “The Rewards of Patience” for an overview of almost every single wine Penfolds has ever produced!
Penfolds Grange…The crescendo of our “Ultimate Penfolds Experience”