Penfolds Grange Bin 95 2019 Single Bottle

Country: Australia Region: Barossa Valley

Varietal: 100% Shiraz Vintage: 2019

Colour: Red Style: Dry

Producer: Penfolds

Description:

Australia’s most renowned and prestigious winery, Penfolds, was founded by Christopher Rawson, an English doctor who settled with his family in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1844 and saw the opportunity to plant vines he had brought with him from the Old World. This is how he began to produce fortified wines. However, his purposes were medicinal. His wines were prescribed to his patients as a remedy to combat anaemia. But the concoction was so well received that the winery was soon encouraged to produce red and white wines as well, and in less than a decade, the winery was producing half of Australia’s wines. Despite becoming large and powerful, this project has managed to maintain a rich winemaking tradition over 175 years that has been guarded by its four main winemakers: Max Schubert, Don Ditter, John Duval and Peter Gago. Four great professionals who have always strived to refine their work, but always respecting their predecessors.

The most powerful expression of Penfolds' multi-vineyard, multi-district blending philosophy, Grange is arguably Australia's most celebrated wine. Made using fully ripe, intensely flavoured and structured shiraz grapes.

Winemaking: Blend of the best grapes from vineyards in the Barossa Valley, Maclaren Valley, Coonawarra and Clare Valley. Aged for 19 months in oak.

Tasting Notes: Penfolds Grange on the nose, highlights a cloak of condensed and glazed fruit surrenders to reveal a fresher disposition ... a coulis of berries and stone fruit; boiled beetroot. Unsurprisingly, the aroma of ground coffee, potato shavings/juice also rises. The palate is fresh and balanced. Neither overdone nor overripe - the bright blueberry and other young blue/black fruits counteract the maturation chronology of this seductive blend.

Ageing Potential: 30 years

Food Matches: Beef / Game / Cheese / Risottos