Penfolds Grange 2002

Grange is both Penfolds and Australia's most famous wine and is officially listed as a heritage icon of South Australia.
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.

Vineyard region Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale
Vintage Conditions regular winter rainfalls in 2001 ensured ideal soil moisture levels and healthy vine growth. Spring and summer temperatures were amongst the lowest on record, which reduced yield potential, as well as slowing overall crop ripening to a crawl. The 2002 growing season concluded with a warm, dry autum, which, combined with careful vineyard management, enabled the grapes to reach ideal ripeness.
grape Variety Shiraz (99%), Cabernet (1%)
Maturation This wine was aged for 15 months in new american oak hogsheads.
Wine analysis alc/Vol: 14.5%
acidity: 6.9g/L
ph: 3.58
Food Matches Ideally suited to Beef, Lamb, Duck & Game

WINEMAKER COMMENTS

by Peter Gago

COLOUR as a five year old at the time of writing, and just before its annual release, the wine is deep, dark and impenetrable.
NOSE at once Grange...oh, and the aromatics just happen to be compatible with that of Shiraz. as is its want, the aromas transform and complex across many planes, with air and over time in the glass. at first, a rich mix of dark chocolate infused with coffee bean and black liquorice, then scents of tar, aniseed, raw (pure) soy and black olive. is it oak, or a hybrid, ‘barrel ferment' character that can be captured as it oscillates in and out of this beguiling aromatic offering?
PALATE The palate is expansive, and yet finessed, balanced, highly defined, sleek. a continuum, an amalgam of dark berried flavours and
textural sensations - deceptively accessible, yet a hidden largesse, untapped flavour and structural precursors threaten to ingress. 100% new oak is completely absorbed, meshed with ripe tannins, completing a palate of impressive length and youthfulness. This has been worth the wait. a complete wine, the description of which is not subservient to words - surely a good sign. The wine is at the other end of the Grange spectral offer to its predecessor, the 2001, purely as a result of two very different climatic vintages.

CELLAR

 peak drinking 2012 - 2042

 

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Can be purchased by the each but $15.00 delivery charge will apply.

RRP:	550
Your Price:	495	($AU inc. GST)
Min. order quantity:	1