Penfolds RWT Bin 798 Shiraz 2020 750 ml bottle VINTAGES

The 2020 RWT Shiraz Bin 798 is a powerhouse of bloody fruit and firm tannin. It veritably explodes from the blocks, showing plum skin, raspberry leaf, blackberry, mulberry, lashings of salted licorice and rendered lamb fat. I am coming to love (in a big and serious way) the Barossa Shiraz' bottlings from 2020 - the year was significantly down in yields, warm and dry, and responsible for wines of muscle, density and gravitas. So, too, for this wine. Excellent. Drink date: 2022-2042. Score - 98. (Erin Larkin, robertparker.com, July 21, 2022)