2005 Penfolds Grange
Community Tasting Note
Collector1855 wrote:
90 Points
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - Penfolds Grange vertical with Peter Gago (Singapore): Penfolds dinner. From a vintage that had a heatwave during the harvest time and it shows. Oxidative nose with overripe, cooked, pruney fruit. No pleasure to drink, feels like an Amarone or an over-extracted Merlot. The Penfolds representative thought this was a phase but I have rarely see oxidative wines recover. A question mark. 88-92?
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Comment posted by gteran76:
3/6/2021 2:08:00 PM - How long was it decanted? And do you thing doing a longer or shorter exposure would have made a difference?
Comment posted by Collector1855:
3/6/2021 6:55:00 PM - This was poured from the bottle by the Penfolds representative, so I don't know what decanting will do but if a wine is oxidative, decanting usually makes it worse. If you have a bottle best to experiment yourself. May be pour some from the bottle and decant some and see how they evolve.