Grape
Shiraz
Ratings
*Penfolds – Icon & Luxury Range
Exceptional – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine
Robert Parker 94
Jeremy Oliver 97
James Halliday 97
Wine Spectator 97
Tasting Notes
Colour : Medium-full red/purple colour
Nose :It is a beautifully weighted and concentrated wine
combining very intense, ripe plummy aromas
with smoky vanillin oak.
Palate : Already, the wine is supremely complex and
harmonious, with ripe plum and coffee-like
luscious fruit, integrated oak, fine tannins and
excellent length.
-by Official Website
The 1990 performed well in the tasting, but, along with the 1980, was
the least impressive of these Granges. The 1990 is loosely knit, seems
to border on overripeness with its jammy character, and has a slightly
more aggressive style of tannin … or are the acids more pronounced? It
is certainly outstanding, displaying full body along with a classic
smoky, blackberry, cassis, pepper, and forest floor-scented bouquet. Of
all these wines, it appears to be the most evolved.
Grange,
Penfolds?ˉ flagship wine, is, by many accounts, the most renowned and
world-famous wine produced in Australia, and these six vintages from my
cellar all acquitted themselves well. These wines are almost always
Shiraz, but many vintages include less than 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, and
there are cross-appellations blends from vineyards in the Barossa and
McLaren Vale.
-by Robert Parker
The big improver of this tasting, whose fullish brick red colour has
developed some brown edges. Unusually floral and perfumed, bursting with
pristine aromas of small red and black berries, plums and fresh
vanilla/cedar/coconut oak. Smooth and silky, long and fine, it?ˉs
saturated with translucent, perfectly focused small berry flavours
tightly entwined by powdery tannins. Wonderfully long, slow to develop,
and just beginning to reveal its genuine potential and surprising
elegance. Drink 2020-2030.
-by Jeremy Oliver
Destined to be one of the greatest
Granges. A beautifully weighted and concentrated bouquet, with seamless
fruit and oak; masses of dark cherries and plum. In the mouth a superb
wine; while the fruit is opulent, it is not excessively so; indeed there
is a touch of near austerity to the fine tannins to give the wine both
character and balance. The iron fist in a velvet glove.
-by James Halliday
Magnificent, exotic, a veritable cascade of opulent flavors–earthy
currant, black cherry and licorice–on a grand frame of incredible
length, wrapped in finely grained tannins. Feels like it can age through
2010 or 2020, at least. 8,000 cases made.
-by Wine Spectator