Penfolds is celebrating 180 years of winemaking with the release of The Penfolds Collection 2024 on August 1.

The collection spans four country of origin releases, with 25 wines made from vineyards across Australia, United States, France and China.

Alongside the 2024 Penfolds Collection, a commemorative Bin 180 Coonawarra Cabernet Shiraz 2021 will be released to honour Penfolds 180th anniversary milestone. Made from the outstanding 2021 Coonawarra vintage, the 2021 Bin 180 is a classic Penfolds wine.

Cabernet Sauvignon from Block 10 and Shiraz from Block 5 are the source of Penfolds Bin 180. These blocks are some of the oldest and most symbolic plantings in the region and are consistent contributors to Grange, Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon and Bin 169 Coonawarra Cabernet Sauvignon.

Penfolds partnered with South Australian artisan Andrew Bartlett to design a limited-edition art piece to enclose the rare 3L jeroboam Bin 180 wines. The wooden cases were painstakingly constructed from staves of Penfolds French oak barrels.

Penfolds Bin 180 Coonawarra Cabernet Shiraz is available from 1 August in 750ml (RRP $1180), 1.5L (RRP $3500) and 3L (RRP $18,000) formats. Only 180 magnums and eight jeroboams are available globally.

“Our Penfolds Collection 2024 is testament to eighteen decades of innovation and invention, hard work, trials, mistakes … and the honing of a Penfolds House Style,” said Penfolds Chief Winemaker Peter Gago (above).

“We have a dedicated team working across the globe, covering viticultural regions in two hemispheres, allowing us to deliver an increasingly diverse and consistently excellent collection of wines each year.”

Within The Penfolds Collection 2024, Australian highlights include the 2020 Grange showcasing the very best parcels of South Australian Shiraz from the 2020 vintage; 2022 Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon – a wine celebrating 60 years since its first release in 1964).

Highlights from the US release included Penfolds Bin 149 Cabernet Sauvignon, Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon, Bin 600 Cabernet Shiraz and the newer stablemate, a Howell Mountain Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Cabernet Franc – all from the 2021 vintage.

The third release from Penfolds partnership with one of Bordeaux’s most respected winemaking Houses, Dourthe, is Penfolds II Cabernet Sauvignon 2022.

From China comes the second release of CWT (Chinese Winemaking Trial) 521 Cabernet Sauvignon Marselan. The 2022 vintage trial wine blends Cabernet Sauvignon from Shangri-La and Marselan from Ningxia.

The wines of The Penfolds Collection 2024 are available globally from 1 August 2024.

‘Read Max Allen’s verdict on the six best wines from the collection here.