| Brand | Penfolds |
| Appellation | Australia |
| Vintage | 2019 |
| Oak Treatment | French Oak |
| Aging | |
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Product details
Vibrant crimson red color. The aromas soars brazenly, immediately cabernet tomato relish, chutney, cassis. Other fruits edge forward for shelf-space, like yellow fleshed plum and ripe persimmon. Intriguingly, other less assertive aromatics offer more complexity: sage soaked in butter, oil, olive leaf, turmeric spices, caper brine. Reticent oak noted, manifested as a seasoned, maturation character. On the palate the wine is medium-bodied and elegantly framed. No mid-palate deficiencies! Blackcurrant and plum fruits sit alongside mocha, chocolate, walnut flavors A genteel (washed, older oak) character, affording a maturation, not a flavor imprint. Mouth watering with fine, rounded, polished tannins. In sharp palate contrast, a finessed, varietal driven alternative to the muscular and Grange like Bin 707 Cabernet.
Penfolds has been producing remarkable wines since 1844 and indisputably led the development of Australian fine wine in the modern era. The introduction of Penfolds Grange in 1951 forever changed the landscape of Australian fine wine. Since then a series of stand-out wines both white and red have been released under the Penfolds masthead.
Peter Gago, Penfolds Chief Winemaker and only the 4th custodian of Grange, relishes the opportunity to bring Penfolds to the world stage and is an enthusiastic ambassador and natural educator. Penfolds came to the attention of the US market when 1990 Grange was Wine Spectator’s ‘Wine of the Year’. Since then, Penfolds Grange has become one of the most collectable wines of the world and was honored to grace the front cover, once again, of Wine Spectator, with declarations of Grange as Australia’s Icon.
