Australia’s most revered Premium Wine, and the most powerful expression of Penfolds multi-vineyard, multi-district blending philosophy, Grange is arguably Australia’s most celebrated wine and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. Crafted utilising fully-ripe, intensely-flavoured and structured shiraz grapes, the result is a unique Australian style that is now recognised as one of the most consistent of the world’s great wines. With an unbroken line of vintages from the experimental 1951, Grange clearly demonstrates the synergy between shiraz and the soils and climates of South Australia.

The 2016 Grange includes 3% Cabernet Sauvignon and was sourced from Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Clare Valley, with a little bit from Magill Estate, in the suburbs of Adelaide. Aged in 100% new American oak (as always), it offers up trademark lifted aromas plus scents of vanilla, toasted coconut, cedar, raspberries and blackberries. Impressively concentrated and full-bodied, with an extraordinarily long, velvety finish, it’s nevertheless reasonably fresh and tight, with decades of cellaring potential if properly stored. Certainly at least on a par with such vintages as 2010 and 2012.

Ken Gargett: 100Pts; Robert Parker: 99Pts; James Halliday: 99Pts; Tony Love: 99Pts; James Suckling: 98Pts; Decanter: 98Pts; Vinous: 98Pts; Matthew Jukes: 20/20Pts

Langton Classification: Top 22 ‘Exceptional’ Wines of Australia (The most highly prized of all Australian fine wines. Representing generations of effort and character of place)

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