The forthcoming release of 1999 Penfolds Grange will no doubt create plenty of media and consumer interest... While I admired the 1998 greatly at the recent Rewards of Patience tasting I preferred the 1999 vintage (by a whisker). Indeed it is an astonishingly lovely wine with really fragrant plum/prune/tobacco/aniseed aromas, apricot nuances and meaty complexity. The palate is deeply concentrated with curtains of plum apricot fruit, fine supple tannins, beautifully integrated malty oak and superb flavour length. It is certainly a most seductive wine with plenty of cellaring potential. This is certainly great Grange (100/100) – Andrew Caillard, Master of Wine
