The wine is clear and bright with a pale salmon colour and presence of many small bubbles.
The nose is clean and developing, showing medium intensity aromas of red fruit (red currants), green fruit (green apple), citrus (lemon peel), yeast (rye bread) and MLF (cream).
The wine is dry in the mouth with a high refreshing acidity. It has low soft tannins and a medium alcohol. It has a medium(-) body and a creamy mousse. It has medium(+) intensity flavours of red fruit (red currants), green fruit (green apple), citrus (lemon peel), yeast (rye bread) and MLF (cream). The finish is long.
It is a very good quality wine. It has a lingering finish and a quite decent fruit concentration well-balance by the refreshing acidity. However it could be more complex in the nose.
Can drink now, but it has enough acidity and flavour concentration to develop some tertiary aromas over the next 1-2 years.
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Penfolds Tasting with 5 vintages of Grange and a bunch more (Downtown Cleveland): Copper in color. The nose has some strawberries and a bit of rhubarb. The palate has rhubarb with slight toast. A bit tart. Some apple cider notes. Nice mousse but it faded in the glass. Certainly a nice Aussie sparkling wine and a nice way to start the night. For an under $20 sparkler it is nice.
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Seems to be something between a sparkling rosé and sparkling white. Light pink color in the glass.Quite dry and refreshing on the palate, delivering some decent red berries with nice bubbles/mousse. Good basic sparkling that left a bit anonymous trace.
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1/30/2015 - Man in Black wrote:
The wine is clear and bright with a pale salmon colour and presence of many small bubbles.
The nose is clean and developing, showing medium intensity aromas of red fruit (red currants), green fruit (green apple), citrus (lemon peel), yeast (rye bread) and MLF (cream).
The wine is dry in the mouth with a high refreshing acidity. It has low soft tannins and a medium alcohol. It has a medium(-) body and a creamy mousse. It has medium(+) intensity flavours of red fruit (red currants), green fruit (green apple), citrus (lemon peel), yeast (rye bread) and MLF (cream). The finish is long.
It is a very good quality wine. It has a lingering finish and a quite decent fruit concentration well-balance by the refreshing acidity. However it could be more complex in the nose.
Can drink now, but it has enough acidity and flavour concentration to develop some tertiary aromas over the next 1-2 years.
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11/21/2014 - Loren Sonkin wrote: 87 Points
Penfolds Tasting with 5 vintages of Grange and a bunch more (Downtown Cleveland): Copper in color. The nose has some strawberries and a bit of rhubarb. The palate has rhubarb with slight toast. A bit tart. Some apple cider notes. Nice mousse but it faded in the glass. Certainly a nice Aussie sparkling wine and a nice way to start the night. For an under $20 sparkler it is nice.
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1/25/2014 - cdmoky wrote: 89 Points
Nice crisp strawberry. Excellent value.
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1/4/2014 - Henman wrote: 86 Points
Seems to be something between a sparkling rosé and sparkling white. Light pink color in the glass.Quite dry and refreshing on the palate, delivering some decent red berries with nice bubbles/mousse. Good basic sparkling that left a bit anonymous trace.
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