CRITIC REVIEWS
Angus Hughson
The 2020 Bin 389 is an iconic McLaren Vale, Barossa and Padthaway blend of Cabernet/Shiraz, made in a restrained but approachable style. It offers up bright, pure and primary Cabernet aromas of leafy cassis over a bed of blackberries, with reserved oak in good support. Shiraz then comes to the fore with plump peppery and mulberry flavours with delicious vitality and a backbone of ample sinewy tannins that support a lingering finish. A good but not great Bin 389.
JancisRobinson.com
A wolf pack of tannins on this baby 389! Sooty, juicy, indigo-inky, as grippy as Velcro and as swashbuckling as a musketeer on a movie set. Love the kalamata-olive bitterness and the ruched liquorice of the tannins. The components are moving together, meshed but not quite fluent. Very firm, if a little brash. (TC)