PENFOLDS GRANGE WITH GIFT BOX 2015

Penfolds Grange 2015

COLOUR
Opaque, a dark core with a lighter deep red concession on rim

NOSE
An eruption of fruits. At once lively and expressive, conceding Grange personality yet still not revealing all …. Dark coffee grind, malt and tapenade merge with black earths, almost verging on peat. Mandated V.A and formic notes propel a slurry of dark-skinned berried fruits, flirting with dark liquorice and soy. Oak completely hidden, long since absorbed. Now, back to the glass for a second sniff!

PALATE
Initially the ‘enlivened’ dark fruits of a Christmas pudding or
boiled fruitcake mix demand attention. But there’s much more to complement these fruits – impressions of ironstone, graphite, iodine, black ink, and a black pudding viscosity. Formidable, meshed tannins – texturally honeycombed, without the honey! Oak has entwined itself invisible. Yes, every barrel still new, and completion of fermentation off skins in barrel still Grange modus operandi. Integrated, measured … and clearly more than one sip required to
gain an authentic ‘first-impression’. Certainly a wine of its vintage. A Grange of 2015.

VARIETIES: 98% Shiraz, 2% Cabernet Sauvignon
REGION: Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Clare Valley, Magill Estate – Australia
AGEING: 20 Months In New American Oak Hogsheads
GUARDING POTENTIAL: 20 years ±
SERVE: Serve at 16ºC – 18ºC
CRITICS SCORES: 100/JS, 99/JD, 98/RP, 97/WE, 97/WS, 95/D

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Grange | Range | Penfolds

The development of Max Schubert’s Grange is a modern tale of imagination, a battle against the odds and redemption. It began with a side trip to Bordeaux in 1949, where a wine ‘capable of staying alive for a minimum of twenty years’, first entered Schubert’s mind. His first experimental vintage in 1951 began a new way of thinking that would eventually lead to a signature wine style, but not before Grange was discredited and Max Schubert forced to make the wine in secrecy.

The original and most powerful expression of Penfolds multi-vineyard, multi-district blending philosophy, Grange is arguably Australia’s most celebrated wine and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. Crafted utilising fully-ripe, intensely-flavoured and structured shiraz grapes, the result is a unique Australian style that is now recognised as one of the most consistent of the world’s great wines. With an unbroken line of vintages from the experimental 1951, Grange clearly demonstrates the synergy between shiraz and the soils and climates of South Australia.