Grape
Shiraz
Ratings
*Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range
Exceptional – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine
Robert Parker 93
Jeremy Oliver 94
Wine Spectator 83
Tasting Notes
Colour : Medium red.
Nose : Complex, cedar/tobacco/gamey with plenty of sweet fruit.
Palate : Highly concentrated and beautifully textured wine with lovely, sweet, blackberry/ smoky/ earthy fruit and liquorice, fine grainy tannins and dry finish. Softening out well, but should continue to develop.
-by Official Website
A wine that seems to get better every time I have it, the 1978 Grange, a
blend of 90% Shiraz and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, has turned out to be a
blockbuster wine with extraordinary intensity, a voluptuous palate,
notes of camphor, coffee, jammy black fruits, leather, and creme de
cassis. As the wine sits in the glass, pepper and melted asphalt make an
appearance. Very unctuously textured, thick, and chewy, this wine is
soft, with a very succulent style. Its color is showing just a touch of
amber as this wine approaches its plateau of maturity. Drink it now and
over the next 20 years.
-by Robert Parker
Fullish red-brown, this fragrant, spicy and complex wine has a delicate
cinnamon-like aroma of cloves and chocolate, dark black and red fruits,
with sweet vanilla oak. Beginning forward and quite rich, it then
disappoints on the palate with a tough, bitter finish lacking sufficient
fruit to complement its substantial extract.
–by Jeremy Oliver
Earthy, pruny, very mature flavors in a smoothly grained texture. Seems
to be losing its freshness, but it’s still relatively complex.
-by Wine Spectator