Community Tasting Notes 33

• prv530 wrote: 95 points

  November 12, 2023 - We had this and 11 other Grange Hermitage from 1967 to 1985 (plus 2003 as the control wine). The 75 bested the 71 by a couple points. Good crimson color, fresh dark beeey flavor, some menthol and graphite on nose. Medium body, tannins diminished. While i preferred the more symmetrical 71, this wine was the favorite and fully mature. Great wine.

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• Barbara B Likes this wine: 94 points

  November 5, 2019 - Hard to believe it’s a 44 year old wine. Slight garnet in its dark core. Mature fruit, meatiness and clean earth on nose. Nice complexity and intensity of flavours. Moderate acidity, moderate alcohol, moderate level of smooth tannins. Full bodied, complex, long, and holding up beautifully.

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• steinersing wrote: 96 points

  May 17, 2019 - a very attractive bottle, very fine and aged to perfection.

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• MC2 Wines wrote: flawed

  April 30, 2019 - Penfolds Grange dinner with Stephanie Dutton (The Musket Room in NYC): Off which was a bummer. We had a few of these a few years ago. One was ok but died early (I think for sure flawed). Other started a bit musty and then opened up into something really beautiful. This was not completely appalling, but nor was it tasty and as the other Granges in the line-up show Grange is meant to be tasty.

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• MC2 Wines Likes this wine:

  July 21, 2017 - A Charmed Life: night of aged Cristal, Grange, and D'Yquem (Marea): We prob opened this one a bit later than we should have. Cork was popped around 6 pm and Granges were served maybe 30 minutes later. As a result, this had one of the bigger arcs of the wines at the table I thought. Most believed it was the outlier of the group - the wine most likely to be mistaken for an aged Bordeaux. Certainly there was a great deal of leather which I do associate with the Bordeaux, but it also had this sweet, almost candied red fruit character to it. Full-bodied. And open for business. We'd tried one of these a few years ago and it was a bit shaky on it's feet originally, peaked quickly, and fell off a cliff. Not this one which four hours in was still quite lovely. Very much enjoyed.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1975
• Type Red
• Producer Penfolds
• Varietal Shiraz Blend
• Designation Grange
• Vineyard n/a
• Country Australia
• Region South Australia
• SubRegion n/a
• Appellation n/a
• UPC Codes 000010078778, 012354000049, 9310297005000, 9310297011506

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• Pending Delivery 2 (1%)
• In Cellars 215 (76%)
• Consumed 65 (23%)

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