Reviews

99/100 Points - Robert Parker,  The Wine Advocate

This is going to be a legendary Grange. The wine shows an extraordinarily intense nose of creme de cassis intermixed with blueberries and almost floral notes. As the wine sits in the glass, some meat, plum, and cola notes emerge. In the mouth, it is absolute perfection, seamless, with extraordinarily sweet tannin, well-integrated acidity, sensational extract, and just layer upon layer of blackberry and cassis fruits that stain the palate and fill the mouth. Its harmony, freshness, and remarkable length (nearly a minute) suggest an all-time classic and another legend.

97/100 Points Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front

The temptation must have been to create a monster and while there’s plenty of weighty, black, aniseedy fruit here, the salaciousness is entirely less aggressive than you’d expect. In short, it’s curvaceous but considered; it’s full of saturated, plummy fruit that somehow has proven almost totally porous to the best-of-the-best new American oak. At this early stage complexity is no great issue and yet there’s an array of fruit flavours already showing: bright, crushed cranberry, dense blackberry, licorice, raisins, woodspice and a hiss of blueberry, with a spit-and-polish of sweet smoky milk chocolate flavour. It’s like a bigger version of the 1998 St Henri, with oak a lot less prominent than you’d expect.

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Penfolds Grange stands unmatched among Australian red wines for its esteemed reputation, unwavering quality, and well-documented aging potential. As the flagship of Penfolds’ red portfolio, this Shiraz is richly textured, full-bodied, and crafted for extended cellaring. The meticulous winemaking begins with carefully selected grapes from low-yielding, mature Shiraz vines, followed by precise fermentation and rigorous oak aging. Its signature character emerges from the perfect balance of ripe Shiraz fruit and elegant American oak influence.