Penfolds Bin 169 Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- Australia
- Coonawarra
- Cabernet Sauvignon
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 11
- Community notes
- 101
- Merchant offers
- 116
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 89/ 100101 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £119per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- Drinking window
- 2016–2030peak2013 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 44 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.5 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, cedar, chocolate, tobacco, vanilla
- Black fruit · blackberry, cassis, blackcurrant, black fruit, blueberry
- Spice · mint, eucalyptus, pepper, licorice, fennel
- Earth · earthy, truffle, graphite, leather, minerals
- Red fruit · cherry, cranberry, pomegranate, red cherry, red fruit
- Floral · violet, dandelion, perfume, potpourri
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2008One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 2024unit not stated
- 202296unit not stated
- 202196unit not stated
- 201996£119 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- 201897£117 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
- 201697£146 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
- 201394£68 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
- 201097£117 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, December 2019
- 200992£87 / 75cl2-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
- 2008£176 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2010
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2013
- peak, window 2016–2030
- Lowest price
- 2013
- £68 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £119 | 95.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025 |
| 2018 | £117 | 96.6 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024 |
| 2016 | £146 | 96.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024 |
| 2013 | £68 | 94.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017 |
| 2010 | £117 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2019 |
| 2009 | £87 | 91.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025 |
| 2008 | £176 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
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LWIN 1179129