Description
Grange is arguably Australia’s most celebrated wine and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia.
Grange boasts an unbroken line of vintages from the experimental 1951 and clearly demonstrates the synergy between Shiraz and the soils and climates of South Australia.
Penfolds Grange displays fully-ripe, intensely-flavoured and textured 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.
The Grange style is the original and most powerful expression of Penfolds multi-vineyard, multidistrict blending philosophy.
2006 Grange is a focused, oak sopper of formidable physique that shows its hallmark ability to impressively mesh raw, layered fruit power, architectural tannins and a swathe of pristine, heady oak.
It bugs me to see the wine in this state – as a glass-to-glasser in its infancy it is adamantine in this incarnation.
Here, we as wine writers, are given the job of soothsayers; will it live for decades, undoubtably, will it further weave and show the kind of intellectual edifice for which this acolyte of wines is renowned, I reckon.
It’s as impressive as I have ever seen new release Grange and a treatise to the work and machinations of winemaking.
However, it also manages to toe a line that represents a manifestation of the old school sense of brooding, pent up muscle-and-brawn, while showing the lattice-work of modern ripeness and tannin flex.
A fountain of youth forged from vineyard and fruit selection.
There is a quiet awe at hand, but here is the consumer advocate in sotto voce, as this is a wine that strays from where current pleasures lie for me.
Regardless, credit is due… – Mike Bennie, The Wine Front, 96 Points The Finer Details Style – Red Wine Varietal – Shiraz 98%, Cabernet Sauvignon 2% Country – Australia Region – Barossa Valley, South Australia Vintage – 2006 Bottle Size – 750ml ABV – 14.5%
