Exceptional Langtons Classification. Grange established an unassailable reputation as one of the world's great and enduring first growths when it claimed top honours at the 1979 Paris Wine Olympiad. Grange is unique for its remarkable capacity to articulate the influence of vintage, while remaining consistent from year to year, possibly the only grande marque to be assembled from an extensive canon of superior vineyards. Grange remains one of the few global icon wines to experience a continued and unprecedented surge in eminence and prestige.

Australia's most internationally renowned export, we can thank the late, great Max Schubert for persevering, undaunted by adversity and resolute in the face of derision by his peers. Schubert was inspired by the great Premier Cru of Bordeaux, resolved to formulate the first growth of Australian wine. Penfolds Grange has become unseatably ensconced within the pantheon of the globe's prestigious marques, it remains the new world's most eminent Shiraz, an unforgettable experience for the most discerning and acute red wine enthusiasts everywhere.

Australia's greatest wine was developed over the course of a tortuous decade, by a personality who was driven by the consuming aspiration to create... Australia's greatest wine. Much adversity faced Max Schubert, his project was forbidden by Penfolds for a time, due to the expense. Early releases of Grange were disparaged by industry press for its richness and concentration. It has endured to become the new world's most precious red wine, desired as much for its investment value as for its generosity of flavour and long lived endowments.

The late great Max Schubert embarked on an adventure to formulate the first growth of Australian wine in the 1940s. After many years of trials and tribulation, his enduring legacy to the world is the mighty Grange. Essentially a rich, splendid Shiraz wine exhibiting a nonpareil intensity of complex fruit character and inseparable, regal oak. A Heritage Icon of South Australia, Grange remains the nation's most recognizable label in the world of wine. Twenty one months in new oak and three years in bottle, the structural and tactile Grange package.

Exceptional Langtons Classification. A profound and complete offer, akin to a mix of the 2002 and 2004 editions. Vintage 2006 is probably more like the 1986 and 1996 than the 1976. It's fabric is meshed with spices, cinnamon and vanillin pod, nutmeg and black pepper, tempered by teppanyaki sauces, almonds and amaretto. Firm throughout and across the palate, reverent tannins and oak convey and propel flavours of slowly roasting lamb avec jus, dark chocolates, cola and maraschino with a lift of menthol and rosemary to finish.

Grange is a unique Australian style, officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. When the late, great Max Schubert embarked on his odyssey to define the nation's ultimate red wine, his efforts were met by adversity and derision from peers. Today Grange is recognised as one of the world's great wines, each vintage is eagerly awaited round the globe. The small 2005 vintage release makes no quality compromise. A Grange that is balanced, firm and polished. The first sip welcomes, the second sip asserts, the third entreats submission.

The wait for this Grange has indeed been worthwhile, arguably the finest vintage since mother nature's endowment of a number of stellar 1990s vintages. Just how good a vintage only time will tell, but all current indicators auger (very) well. Certainly stylistically in the mould of wonderful vintages.

Grange is Australia's most famous wine and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. The most powerful expression of Penfolds long and prolific traditions, Grange boasts an unbroken line of vintages from the experimental 1951, and clearly demonstrates the synergy between Shiraz with the soils and climates of South Australia. Grange displays fully-ripe, intensely-flavoured and textured Shiraz in combination with splendid oak. A unique Australian style, recognised as one of the most consistent of the world's greate wines.

By many accounts a superior vintage and a return to the past. Grange has bypassed the fads and trends of modern winemaking in the sense that it has maintained an integrity of style and remained true to its origins in the mind of Max Schubert.

Celebrating its 50th commercial release, this wine is only the second in history to be made from 100% Barossa Valley fruit. The premium fruit sourced offers richer fruit flavours and characters, ripe tannins, flavour concentration and greater density. Penfolds Chief Winemaker Peter Gago describes the 2001 release as a wine that will last for decades.

Regardless of vintage, Grange delivers astonishing weight of fruit in a delicious, explosive style without any overpowering oak or gratuitous complexity. Strong dark Shiraz berry flavours are the hallmarks of Grange, the illustrious pantheon of eminent Penfolds winemakers have maintained the magic. Grange 2000 is an excellent example of the style, transcending a most challenging South Australian vintage. Oak plays a supportive role, perfectly integrated and absorbed. This is a wine of admirable balance, decorum and poise.

Grange is both Penfolds and arguably Australia's most famous wine and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. Penfolds Grange displays fully-ripe, intensely-flavoured and textured shiraz grapes in combination with new American oak. The first 100% Shiraz Grange since 1963, and an excellent follow on to the.

Grange is both Penfolds and Australia's most famous wine and is officially listed as a heritage icon of South Australia. An exceptional vintage, 1998 remains a superbly balanced and sumptuous wine, with all the hallmarks of a great, long-living Grange.

Grange is likely to remain positioned as Australia's flagship wine, many vintages far into the future. When Max Schubert embarked on his voyage of discovery and innovation during the late 1940s, the fledgling wine industry was relatively amateurish and fragmented. Winemaker John Duval's contribution to the evolution of Grange has also been critical. His stewardship has probably seen the greatest developments and innovation in viticulture and winemaking. A remarkable vintage Grange is the 1997, considering it's place between the great 1996 and 1998 editions.

Deep plum-red colour. Brooding nose of praline, plum and blueberry. Layered succulent and stylish full oak palate. Earthy fruit flavours of plum and chocolate and very rich chunky chewy tannins. Excellent balance and length.

Despite a difficult vintage, rigorous selection of intensely flavoured grapes from mature vines in some of the finest vineyards produced a wine that exceeded vintage expectations.

There's a noticeable cabernet component here (it's 11% cabernet), giving the flavour profile a noticeable hit of blackcurrant and a more elongated, bony, tannin-driven structure. Still, the palate does come with flights of deep, dense, dark blackberry and crushed ants, and there's a thick, malty, mentholly hit, particularly on the finish. Again, the striking thing here is the wine's balance. And with a polished array of supporting flavours: cedar, dark chocolate, Asian-spice and brooding prune, it seems that time could easily do wonders.

The benchmark by which exceptional red wines in Australia, and increasingly overseas, are often measured. The reasons for this are many, concentration of flavour, complexity and longevity. Grange blossoms with 15 to 20 years of bottle age, when most other reds have past their best, and better vintages can live to continue developing for decades longer. First produced by Max Schubert in 1951, the 1993 Grange represents over forty years of winemaking excellence. An earlier maturing vintage that's nevertheless rich and concentrated, very scented with apricot/camomile/dark berry/smoky aromas.

No other red wine in Australia can rival the reputation, consistent quality or proven development pattern of Penfolds Grange. The pinnacle of Australian reds, Grange is a rich, opulent, full-bodied Shiraz, destined for a long cellar life. The winemaking process involves great attention to detail, from selecting the best possible grapes sourced from low-yielding, old Shiraz vines, through to fermentation and fastidious oak maturation. The 1992 Grange has great complexity and balance, a powerful and rich vintage with mouth-coating tannins.

At first it presents as remarkably fruity, but the more you look at it the more it seems like an example of highly skilled engineering. It's a wine of considerable and outstanding finesse, with black and red berry fruit cascading through the mouth. Great structure, and it will get even better.

Wine Spectator Red of the Year. History will record 1990 as one of the great Australian vintages of a generation. Grange 1990 was one of the very best to date, with the potential to rival the classic vintages of 1955, 1962 and 1971. A superbly balanced wine, and a very great Grange vintage with tremendous finesse and understated power.

Grange began as a secret project during the 1940s and 1950s to construct Australia's ulimate red wine. The original experiments were fashioned after the great growths of Bordeaux but were dedidedly unsuccessful due to the quality of Cabernet available in Australia at the time. Penfold's banned the entire project from 1956 to 1956 due to the spiralling costs but Max Schubert continued with trials until production resumed in 1960. Vintage 2007 exhibits a generous palate profile, flavours of dates and persimmon, roasted nuts and freshly baked pecan pie.

Ever since the ambitious, experimental trials and tribulations of Max Schubert throughout the 1950s, to conceive and formulate the nation's first growth, Grange has maintained its place as Australia's most prestigious wine. A Shiraz of extraordinary dimension and power, richly textured, intensely concentrated and packed with fruit sweetness, the tasting of any Penfolds Grange regardless of vintage, is a profound and unforgettable experience. Rich and exciting in it's youth, Grange develops into an immensely complex, beguiling wine that seduces the senses.

Penfolds Grange is an Australian icon, a National Trust of Australia heritage listed wine which captures the essence of Australian ingenuity and innovation. The story of Grange is steeped in the Australian ethos. It is the story of a winemaker who battled against the odds, possessed by the ideal of creating one of the very great wines of the world. The enduring spirit of Grange means that each vintage boasts its own character as the marque evolves and surprises. A seductive, richly concentrated wine, a timeless classic.

One of the great strengths of Grange is that it does not rely on the performance of a single vineyard. Nowadays, only a few hundred Grange magnum arew bottled each year. 2003 produced Shiraz with dense colour, impressive varietal characters and soft tannins.

Penfolds remarkable winemaking philosophy ensures each vintage of Penfolds Grange has its own vintage character, which continually evolves and surprises. The 2002 is at the other end of the Grange spectral offer to its previous vintage, purely as a result of two very different climatic vintages.100% new oak is completely absorbed, meshed with ripe tannins, completing a palate of impressive length and youthfulness.

Soon after Wine Spectator named Grange 'The Best Red Wine in the World' the price of subsequent vintage releases soared at auction. An Australian icon, Grange represents a tradition in winemaking that is totally uncompromising. Grange has bypassed the fads and trends of modern winemaking in the sense that it has maintained an integrity of style and remained true to its origins in the mind of Max Schubert. Penfolds Grange is the quality standard against which all other Australian red wines are judged. To share a magnum of Grange from one's own cellar is one of the great wine experiences.

Penfolds renowned 2000 Grange is only the fifth vintage to be made from 100% Shiraz. It is also, atypically, 100% Barossa fruit. While it is not considered to be one of the great Granges, the 2000 exhibits outstanding potential, and is much more accessible than usual. One of the top wines I tasted from this vintage, its dense ruby/purple color is followed by a big, sweet nose of blackberries. While this is no wimpy wine, it is an ideal example for readers who are unwilling to invest the patience required for the big, blockbuster Granges.

Grange boasts an unbroken line of vintages from the experimental 1951 and clearly demonstrates the synergy between Shiraz and the soils and climate of South Australia. Penfolds Grange displays fully-ripe, intensely-flavoured and textured Shiraz grapes in combination with new American oak. The result is a unique Australian style that is now recognised as the most consistent of the world's great wines. The Grange style is the original and most powerful expression of Penfolds' multi-vineyard, multi-district blending philosophy.

A big, typical Grange and a very good wine from this vintage. Smooth, sumptuous and firmly structured, its deep, long palate of dark red and black berry flavours is wound around firm, but powder-fine tannins.

Sourced from Kalimna in the Barossa, McLaren Vale, the Magill Estate and Padthaway. An exceptional vintage in both quality and quantity.

The 1995 Grange is the 45th consecutive vintage of the wine that carries the flag for the Australian wine industry. Fruit from the Barossa and the McLaren Vale, the Magill Estate and Padthaway.

Grange 1994 represents an excellent offering from an above average vintage. Layers of massive Shiraz fruit and expertly crafted oak manifest themselves. Forceful, ripe tannins are balanced by sheer weight of fruit.

Penfolds Grange, blossoms with fifteen to twenty years of bottle age, when most other reds have past their best, and better vintages can live and continue developing for decades longer. A self-taught, practical winemaker with a natural inquisitiveness for winemaking theory, creator Max Schubert embraced a romantic view of winemaking. Though he retired as Chief Winemaker at Penfolds in 1973, Max remained involved as a mentor and Winemaker Emeritus for another 20 vintages. 1993 is an earlier maturing vintage under Magnum, kept optimumly cellared.

The pinnacle of Australian reds, Grange represents opulence, vintage 1992 offers great complexity and balance, a powerful and rich release with mouth-coating tannins. No other red wine in Australia can rival the reputation, consistent quality or proven development pattern of Penfolds Grange. A full-bodied Shiraz wine, fleshed out with a component of exceptional Cabernet fruit, under magnum, the 1992 was destined for a long cellar life. Deep crimson in colour, with smoky/dark chocolate/blueberry/ plum aromas and flavours, fine grained with slightly leafy tannins, finishing very firm and tight.

The 1991 Grange shocked me with its sweet, forward display of jammy black fruits, smoke, roasted coffee, and copious toasty oak scents and flavors. This mouthfilling Grange, inevitably becomes more complex and civilized with ten or more years of cellaring.

The 1990 and 1991 Granges are regarded by many as extraordinary wines with incredible power and finesse. James Halliday calls this vintage flawlessly supple. In 1990 Grange dropped the Hermitage tag, to align with the name by which it had been known internationally for many years. 95% Shiraz, 5% Cabernet Sauvignon from Kalimna and other Barossa Valley vineyards, Clare Valley and Coonawarra. A very great vintage with a perfect warm, dry growing season and harvest, yielded a Grange with solid structure and dominant fruit characters.

The story of Australia's most revered fortified wine dates back to 1915, when an exclusive barrel of old Tawny Port, was set aside for the sole use of the Penfold family. Revered internationally as one of Australia's finest exports, perennially feted with trophies and gold, Penfolds Grandfather Liqueur Tawny is a blend of the rarest Australian old Port wines, aged in a selection of small oak casks. The rich yet delicate fruit character harmonises sublimely with evolved, aged rancio complexity into a truly luxuriously aged Liqueur Tawny.

In 1844 Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold planted vines on the slopes of Magill to produce fortified wine. By 1881 Penfolds was producing a third of South Australia's entire fortified wine production. Father Grand Tawny is a tribute to the century and a half of excellence practised within the bluestone cellar walls of Magill Estate. The combination of extended barrel maturation and Penfolds tradition of uncompromising vinification skills has achieved a wine with exemplary fruit richness, mellow aged rancio complexity and great length of flavour.

Penfolds glory years throughout the first half of the twentieth crentury were essentially as a producer of fortified wines, excellent new-world Ports that were exported globally, and relied upon for quality and consistency back at home. Penfolds today encapsulates a century and a half of winemaking and embodies the traditions of the toothsome fortified wine in Australia. Beginning life as Five Star Club Tawny in the nineteen forties, Penfolds Club has grown with the nation, and is now Australia's number one bottle fortified wine.

An exquisite dessert style of Viognier from fruit grown to a very special block of Barossa vine. Fashioned to titillate the senses and delight all enthusiasts of effusive, toothsome wines. Its moreish explosion of jasmine and ginger perfumes, viscosity and lusciousness, presages a richness of dried apricots, marmalade and preserved lemon compote, a refreshing tangy, lemon sherbet acidity contributes refined balance. A wicked aperitif to excite boisterous behaviour, a regal accompaniement to gateaux, steamed puddings or ripe, blue vein cheese.

An assemblage of old vines Sangiovese, from the Georgiadis property in Barossa Valley and illustrious Penfolds Kalimna Vineyard on Adelaide Hills. Naturally wild yeast vinified in a selection of old, wax lined open top fermenters at the historical Penfolds Magill Estate wineworks, followed by sixteen months maturation in seasoned French oak barriques. Fashioned to be engagingly old world in charm, a tapenade of sun dried tomatoes, olives and tannin, on a lengthy palate defined by a juicily piquant cranberry twist and resolving on a whisper of cocoa carob oak.

A long time between drinks, the last Cellar Reserve Cabernet Shiraz was the tiny, yet unforgettable 1993. The tradition of innovation and experimentation is central to Penfolds and is perpetuated in the form of Penfolds Cellar Reserves. These one-off releases emerge periodically when experimental wines are deemed appropriate for public release. The wines do not necessarily fit into any particular genre and provide Penfolds winemakers with the freedom to strive for new styles and definitions of excellence in their expression.

Cabernet Sauvignon was at the heart of Max Schubert's quest to establish the national flagship Australian red. Max Schubert was deeply inspired by Cabernet following his return from Bordeaux, Penfold Grange was originally planned as a Cabernet Cuvée. After many vintages of trial and tribulation, he became frustrated in his attempts to formulate a great Australian Cabernet but the lessons and experiences were passed on to successive winemakers. The tradition of development and refinement continues to this day, Penfold represent the first Australian growth of Cabernet Sauvignon.

Bin A series Chardonnay is a pathfinder wine, fortuitous achievement of the consequential Penfolds white wine project. Reserve Bin A has evolved into a wine with a distinctive style, it remains an integral part of the Penfolds portfolio. Exclusively Adelaide Hills Chardonnay is sourced from up to eighty vineyards with a core provenance from ten elite cooler sites. Bin A is very much for the connoisseur, a highly suitable match bresaola and seaweed consomme, grilled Marron or crisply truffled skin chicken, Bin A demands a decant and is not for the faint of heart.

Exclusively Cabernet Sauvignon, the major part from McLaren Vale. Penfolds owe much of their enduring success to the preoccupations of Max Schubert in all things Cabernet. He drew inspiration from the great growths of Bordeaux, endeavouring long and hard on the development of superior vineyards to deliver a consistency of harvests from year to year. Nascent Cabernet vines sowed by Penfolds viticulturalists a half century ago are now yielding world class vintages, vinified and aged in a selection of seasoned and new American oaks for a year.

Penfold's mastery at formulating superlative Shiraz and Cabernet accords is due in great part to the excellence of their vineyards, achieved through the assemblage of components into a wine which delivers true stylishness in the enduring and timeless Penfolds way. Great attention is paid to the ripeness of fruit that goes into Bin 8, making the wine fuller in style and sounder in structure. Pointedly named for the distinction of its maturation in a selection of pre loved oak barrels which have held vintages of Bin 28, Bin 128 and Bin 389.

Bin 707 is the Cabernet Sauvignon equivalent to Grange, crafted from ripe intensely-flavoured fruit, fermented and matured in new American oak, and expressing the Penfolds policy of multi-vineyard, multi-region fruit sourcing. Branded by a Qantas marketer, Bin 707 was first vintaged in 1964. The fruit selected for Bin 707 is subject to stringent quality regimens, sometimes a vintage goes unreleased if Cabernet grapes of the required style and quality are unavailable. Big and long-lived, Bin 707 has a secure place among the ranks of Australia's great Cabernets.

A mouthful of exceptional vineyard Cabernet fruit, fermentation in barrel, and maturation in new American oak.