Since its 1964 debut, Penfolds has made Bin 707 in 48 of 61 vintages – and quietly declined to make it in 13. Here's the full year-by-year record, the years it was skipped, and the reasons behind the gaps. [Penfolds Bin 707: The Years It Was Made, and the Years It Wasn't]
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
