Professional Ratings

• 93 Wine & Spirits

  Named for one of Penfolds’ Barossa Valley vineyards, this wine includes fruit from Barossa, McLaren Vale, Padthaway, Adelaide and Wrattonbully. After a year in neutral American oak barrels, the wine has matured into a luscious red with layers of detail to the plummy fruit, integrating mint and pepper into the cocoa and cinnamon of oak. There’s freshness in the tannins, their grip opening with air to reveal more floral tones and a graceful texture of iron and silk. Best Buy

• 91 James Suckling

  A warm, early harvest has delivered a wine with more dried, baked blackberries and plums, reflecting the DNA of Penfolds style, and a wine that makes a more savory, spicy and earthy impression than the previous 2015 release. The palate is assuredly rich and round with blackberry and dark plum-pastry flavors, layered on silky, dense and rich, ripe tannins. Long and mellow. Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Padthaway, Upper Adelaide, Wrattonbully fruit sourcing. Drink now or hold.

• 91 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
  The full-bodied 2016 Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz is a blend of fruit from Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Padthaway, Upper Adelaide and Wrattonbully. It's a warm-climate, rich, plush Shiraz, with a velvety mouthfeel and lingering savory notes on the finish.
• 91 Wine Enthusiast

  Although named after the original Barossa vineyard from which it was sourced, this wine—the oldest of Penfolds’s Bin series—is now, like many in the brand’s line up, a multi-regional blend from around South Australia. Inky-hued, it oozes chocolate, anise, olives, dried violets and black pepper. The fruit aromas arrive later, in the form of cherries and blackberries. The palate is rich and textured, a finely wound line of granular tannins around plush berry fruit and a long finish. Drink 2021–2030.

• 91 Wilfred Wong of Wine.com
  COMMENTARY: The 2016 Penfolds Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz is a satisfying red wine. TASTING NOTES: This wine is firm and nicely balanced. Its fruit-forward aromas and flavors of black fruits stay long on the palate. Pair with a tangy, hard cheese. (Tasted: March 21, 2020, San Francisco, CA)
• 90 Jeb Dunnuck
  The 2016 Shiraz Kalimna Bin 28 is another wine that comes from multiple regions in South Australia. It’s a ripe, sexy beauty that gives up tons of blackberry and black cherry fruits intermixed with notions of spice box, licorice, and chocolate. It’s medium to full-bodied, has tons of fruit and texture, and is a pleasure bent beauty that stays balanced and incredibly drinkable. Enjoy it over the coming 7-8 years (it should keep even longer if you’re so inclined).
• 90 Wine Spectator
  The cherry and plum flavors have good intensity and appealing traction from dense tannins and notes of black licorice and tobacco. The tannins firm up further on the appealingly chewy finish, where details of clay and dried olive emerge. Drink now through 2029.