"There is amazing depth to the purple-crimson colour. Its full-bodied colours are nailed to the mast immediately the wine enters the mouth; it's strange how the cabernet of this wine marries with the American oak, providing the ultimate Christmas cake of aromas and flavours; one of its great strengths is the tannin structure that gives the wine its exceptional length (and mouthfeel along the way).”  James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion – 98 points

"Deep crimson. Intense blackcurrant, dark chocolate, cherry liqueur and roasted coffee aromas. A richly flavoured wine with blackcurrant, dark chocolate and panforte flavours, vigorous powerful muscular driving tannins and underlying savoury espresso oak notes. Sweet fruited wine with the structure and attack to age for decades. Keep for a while. Peak drinking 2025 to 2060."  Penfolds Rewards of Patience tasting panel 2021 - 5/5 rating

"Sourced from Coonawarra, Padthaway, Barossa Valley, Wrattonbully and the Adelaide Hills, this is a wine with real purpose, confidence and bold style in a very good vintage. The nose has some creamy spice and nougat oak; there's a strong savory thread with dark herbs and dark stones too, along with almost brick mortar and very dark soy, iodine, tarry notes, and black olive. It opens up with gusto, really expressive. The palate has a seam of mocha flavor and the oak is fresh, adding a crispness to the wine from the outset. The density here is striking and very compact; it strides across the palate with purpose, length and poise. The tannins are seamlessly woven together, offering admirable ageing potential."  Nick Stock, JamesSuckling.com - 98 points and Top 50 Wines of Australia 2014

"Deep red with a good purple rim, the bouquet unmistakeably cabernet but with no greener notes and surprisingly, lacking the degree of overt oak that this wine usually displays on release. That said, there are definite licks of background mocha, chocolate and coffee, all oak-matured effects. The palate is very full-bodied and dense, concentrated and rich, the core of sweet blackberry and blackcurrant fruit surrounded by an amplitude of tannin. It has tremendous depth and persistence, and a finish that is smooth and harmonious. It's great to see a young 707 in which the fruit is doing most of the talking. The rich fruit has soaked up the 14 months worth of 100% new American oak. Spectacular stuff.”  Huon Hooke, The Real Review – 97 points

"Classic, inimitable, signature 707: blockbuster and towering, yet focused and controlled, packed with all manner of density and exacting varietal definition of black- and redcurrants, cassis, cedar, tobacco and violets, even a hint of mint, over a solid core of dark chocolate American oak. Density is impenetrable, intricately riveted together without a hairline gap between its panels, yet at the same time sleek and streamlined. Its energy, poise and super fine, commandingly structured tannins furnish an epic future.”  Tyson Stelzer - 97 points

"Deeply ripened and densely packed, this classical expression of the Penfolds house style should cellar superbly. Its intense, briary aromas of cassis and dark plums and assertive cedar/vanilla oak are backed by notes of dark olives and dried herbs, mint and menthol. Long and luscious, it's steeped in palate-staining flavour of cassis, blackberries, briar and dark plums, cloaked in grainy chocolate/mocha oak and underpinned by a fine-grained and faintly mineral backbone. Drink: 2032-2042."  Jeremy Oliver - 96 points

"Bin 707 is often criticised for its oak but it still goes into 100% new American; confidence in the style shows no signs of wavering. Truth is that you can't approach Bin 707 without oak being front of mind, which many would say is the problem in a nutshell, but I'd argue that the meshing of fruit-oak in Bin 707 has improved over the years. In short, it's a much better drink than it once was. This release is cabernet goes to Hollywood, full of pizzazz and polish, make up and special effects. It may not be the truest expression of cabernet grapes but the story editor has all the twists and turns in exactly the right places. Waves of tannin, blackcurrant, mint, boysenberry, vanillin. Quite a show. And really, in its style, a super wine."  Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front - 96 points