Penfolds Bin 389 Cabernet - Shiraz

Red
Australia
South Australia
Shiraz/Syrah
Cabernet Sauvignon

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages: 31
Community notes: 545
Merchant offers: 264

What we know about this wine

Critics: 94/ 1002023 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 87/ 100545 notes, every vintage
Market price: £59per 75 cl2023 · nearest vintage with a price · single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
Drinking window: 2012–2018past its window2008 · 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 947 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Cabernet - Shiraz.

Body4.7 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.2 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.8 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, vanilla, chocolate, tobacco, cedar
Black fruit · blackberry, plum, blackcurrant, dark fruit, black fruit
Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, eucalyptus, menthol
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, graphite
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red cherry
Dried fruit · prune, fig, raisin, dried fruit, fruitcake

Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah, 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.

Realised in-bond trades£35–£67Shop asks£59–£90GBP per 75 cl · 16 priced vintages

1996One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023

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.

Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2020; 96 / 100 from a critic
Lowest price: 2020; £35 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

Bin 389 Cabernet - Shiraz monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 9 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Bin 389 Cabernet - Shiraz monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2023	£59	94	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2022	£44	94.4	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2021	£46	93.8	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2020	£35	96.2	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2019	£37	93.8	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2017	£49	93	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
2016	£58	92.5	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2023
2015	£56	93.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
2014	£78	93.6	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2013	£67	91	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2018
2012	£55	93.4	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2020
2011	£54	90	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2021
2010	£48	92	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2020
2009	£64	92.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
1998	£78	90	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1996	£90	91.8	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026

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