This Trial Bin 931 explores the taste relationship of two regions and three varieties.
The art of blending has several purposes. One is the addition of a good and more expensive wine to a lesser wine to lift the standard. Blending trials like this show that even small additions can lift the average wine.
Another example is blending good wines from two different regions. A celebrated example is the Penfolds Bin 60A Coonawarra Cabernet Barossa Valley Shiraz 1962 yet remarkably this blend is not a treasure chest to repeat again and again as while it has been tried often the results have not elevated the parts.
With the example Benjamin continues to explore the relationship between warm climate grown Merlot, Mataro and Cabernet from the Barossa and Eden Valley. The result is excellent