Penfolds Grange (1 Bottle) 2003
Theres only so much Grange to go around. NZ doesnt get a lot. Thats all the reason you need to make this bottle yours.
Region:
Barossa Valley, Coonawarra, McLaren Vale, Magill
Drink Until:
31/12/2038
Varieties:
97% Shiraz, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon
Foods:
Oak:
This wine was matured for 15 months in new American oak hogsheads.
Colour:
Deep red.
Nose:
Captivating, complex, complete. Unravelling aromatics unfurl with air - blue fruit notes entwined with barrel ferment and maturation elements; nothing singular, always in tandem. Sweet soy, cola and quince paste high notes escape from an ethereal layer (aniseed, fennel and fresh treacle ginger pudding) wafting above.
Palate:
Dark and liqueur chocolate, laced with Moroccan spices. An underlying tar/graphite blackness is lifted by derived fruit/quince pie flavours - a few years earlier they may have been more brashly varietal and elemental. Pronounced tannins sweep across the palate, although they are certainly part of the wine, never obtrusive. Long, layered and compelling, this wine is at the spicier end of the Grange spectrum.
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Alcohol:
14.5%
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