Known as Baby Grange after Penfolds most famous shiraz, the Bin 389 has some parts of the wine matured in the same barrels as the previous vintage Grange.  As this is a Cabernet Shiraz, I am not really seeing Grange here, but I get the linkages to some degree.

Max Schubert first blended Bin 389 in 1960, but the 2013 really isn’t a Baby Grange as this is a 51/49% cabernet sauvignon/shiraz blend. Grange is pretty much shiraz so it really isn’t the same. With fruit sourced from the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Padthaway, Wrattonbully and Coonawarra, this is an elegantly blended wine.

I had planned to drink a Yarra Yering Dry Red No.1 but forgot to pull the bottle out before I headed off to work. I had just reached a milestone in my retirement fund on Friday the 9th of April 2021, so it was worth a drink with my father on a Friday night as we had a barbecue. So I picked up a pretty decent bottle on the way over to my parents house after work. Drinking a 2013 vintage in 2021 is a decent enough maturation. Pretty smooth, not over done – this is a pretty decent example of Penfolds winemaking.