Penfolds Grange Shiraz 2001 1.5lt Magnum
4 MAGNUMS AVAILABLE.
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 one of 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.
Regional Source: 100% Barossa Valley.
Vintage Conditions: Good winter rains and soil moisture levels led to a very good early growing season. Growth was vigorous and flowering was successful however the onset of exceptional heat in January depleted soil moisture, and vineyards without water suffered. Rain in mid-March provided relief and vineyards produced shiraz with excellent, ripe fruit flavours.
Grape Variety: Shiraz (Syrah)
Maturation: This wine was aged for 17 months in new American oak hogsheads.
Deep, dark and dense, retaining bright purple hues. The nose is immediately Grange, revealing barrel ferment complexities soaked in dark berried fruits. Vibrant, youthful and lifted, a mix of tightly packed liquorice, freshly tanned leather and dark spices create a poised, controlled and distinctive wine. A rich, full-flavoured and concentrated wine with complex rum/raisin dark chocolate, liquorice, quince paste and dried fruit notes. Prominent, well integrated tannins align with oak (all but soaked up by the fruits) to create a lingering continuum of flavours and tactile persistence. Beautifully balanced, this 100% Barossa wine delivers the expectations demanded of a Grange from this vintage. Peter Gago
Lush and youthful and banged up with flavour – as a Grange should be. Forget the 2000, it was a momentary blip – this is a Grange in very good form. Fresh, young, opulent, perhaps a little lighter in tannin than is customary – though it builds considerably as the wine opens up – essency black (100%) Barossan fruit with a crunch of blueberries squeezing over the finish. Plus, of course, liberal oak – though it’s integrating fast. A big soft cuddly Grange. It’ll drink young and old. Drink: 2008-2020. 95 points. Campbell Mattinson, Winefront Monthly
A very fragrant, richly structured and flavoursome Grange whose deep, heady and smoky aromas of blackberry confiture, dark chocolate, violets and treacle reveal faint undertones of bitumen. Richly ripened and sumptuous, it gradually reveals its layers of deep, dark plums, cranberries and blackberries, steadily building in structure and intensity down the palate. Supported by drying, powdery tannins and first-rate oak, it’s a surprisingly good wine from a tough vintage, with just a hint of stewed fruit, and finishing with a lingering core of licorice-like flavour. (Barossa Valley, $450 retail, approx., 95 points), drink 2021-2031. Jeremy Oliver
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