Out Of The Bottle
With David Ellis
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Bin 28, Classic Wine For Classic Events
There
are few things in life that we buy with absolutely no intention of
enjoying for years – in some cases anything up to a decade or more –
but good red wine is one of them.
And if you’ve a milestone
family or other event coming up in the next ten or fifteen years, take
a tip and stock up now on a few bottles of the just-released 2006
Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz.
This wine, whose own birth
created something of a milestone when it came into this world a half
century ago from the 1959 vintage, has long been a showcase Aussie
Shiraz, and this latest 2006 delivers the classic Bin 28 style to
perfection: it is huge on generous spice, dark licorice and chocolate
flavours, and there’s lovely fruity cranberry acidity and good solid
tannins.
Originally 100-per cent Barossa Valley, today’s Bin 28
is a multi-region blend, with the Barossa continuing to make up a
substantial part of the blend.
Priced at $33.99 a bottle its
good buying by the case for that particular milestone in the next ten
to fifteen years… and if you are tempted to whip a bottle from the case
now just to see how good it is, put it on the table with a hearty Beef
Wellington and early-cropping cool-season vegies.
One For Lunch
Winemaker Dr Phil Spillman jokes that with the fruity lime, pineapple,
quince and custard apple flavours in his 2008 inaugural Deakin Estate
Viognier, you should put on an Hawaiian shirt just to drink it.
We’re
not sure about the shirt, but he’s right about this wine that was made
without oak, so letting its full-on tropical fruit flavours come to the
fore. At just $10 buy a few and create your own “Hawaiian luau” – mix a
cup of pineapple juice with a 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 2 tablespoons soy
sauce, 2 cloves garlic and a teaspoon of fresh ginger, and marinate
chicken thighs in this for 30 minutes before cooking on the barbie.
And, yes, if you must, put on that shirt.
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