Community Tasting Notes 86

• GFWeaver Likes this wine: 96 points

  March 30, 2024 - Beautiful expression of Grange. 20 years in, and still a big boy… took 2 hours to hit its stride. Loved drinking it… sorry it’s gone.

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• rapcor Likes this wine: 95 points

  February 16, 2024 - A classic great wine living up to its potential. I feel we drank it a bit before its time. Crimson to black cherry, concentrated dark fruits with the vanilla oak a little forward hints of dark chocolate. Mouth filling with a long finish. I look forward to trying my next bottle post 2028.

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• DWStyle Likes this wine: 97 points

  January 1, 2024 - Really impressive at this young stage. Drank NYE dinner Kokkari with lamb chops! 2 left, will try to hold off for a decade or so.

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• Brian of Mull Likes this wine: 96 points

  December 2, 2023 - Have had this sitting in my cellar for ~ 10 years. Opened for 2 hours. Color is deep ruby/purple. On the nose: Plum, cassis, violets, pepper, dark chocolate, espresso and iron. On the palate: Cassis, pepper, plum , olive , cinnamon and black cherry liquor. Long and sensuous with broad and deep flavors. Extremely well made (what a shock) and well balanced. It’s been probably a decade since I’ve had a Grange and now I remember why they are so good. Superb. I think need more time to open up and this has decades of life it in. My only bottle so I need to splurge over the holidays are pick up 2-3 bottles to lay away.

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• acyso wrote: 95 points

  September 28, 2023 - Four decades of Penfolds Grange (Chicago, IL): Of the younger iterations, this was very much my favourite. It is of a slightly more delicate, perfumed nature, and there is more syrah character here than in most of the other wines. The American oak is still prominent, but the red fruit gives this more of a Côte-Rôtie character. With air, more menthol and earth emerges. The lighter profile of this wine makes it much more attractive to drink now.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 2004
• 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 012354000049, 012354000100, 012354071100, 012354071131, 2100003256775, 8312797000388, 9310297000272, 9310297000388, 9310297000395, 9310297001125, 9310297002771, 9310297004164, 9310297005000, 9310297008728, 9310297013791

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• Pending Delivery 49 (1%)
• In Cellars 3,777 (82%)
• Consumed 803 (17%)

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