Penfolds Grange Hermitage 1981
$79999each
$9599DOZEN
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Fruit Shiraz CabernetSauv
Regions Barossa + Adelaide Hills
  South Australia
Each $799.99
$9599.00
Currently out of stock
Winemaker John Duval called the 1981 a big, tannic Grange. It is just that, a very powerful, inky, purple-colored wine that is still almost primary and unevolved in its surprising youthfulness. This formidably endowed, broodingly backward, thick, full-bodied, muscular wine has a boatload of chocolate-infused plum, caramel, and cassis flavors. With high tannin, huge grip, and some propensity toward austerity, this is a monster Grange that may not totally assimilate the high levels of tannin, but there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about its future.
The 1981 Grange is a blend of 89 percent Shiraz and 11 percent Cabernet Sauvignon from the Kalimna and other Barossa vineyards, Magill Estate and the Modbury Vineyard in the Adelaide Plains. A warm to hot, drought-affected summer followed by a normal vintage. Maturation in new American oak hogsheads for eighteen months. Alcohol 12.70% Acidity 6.20g/L pH 3.58
TASTING NOTES
Deep crimson brick red. Liquorice, dried fig, baked red fruit aromas. Coffee chocolate oak precede a plump, juicy and straightforward palate. A powerfully concentrated and muscular wine with chocolate raisin fruit, earthy nuances and a touch of American oak. The tannins are soupy and dense and build up very chalky and dry at the finish. Will it ever soften out? Winemaker comments by Don Ditter: Dense purple/red in colour. Smoky meaty/spicy aromas and some toasty oak characters, also showing vanilla and coffee overtones. A combination of rich, fleshy, chocolaty and smoky flavours are balanced with pronounced tannins and length, resulting in a wine of immense concentration and powerful structure.
 Penfolds
Penfolds was founded by a young English doctor who migrated to one of his country's most distant colonies a century and a half ago
Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold was born in 1811, the youngest of 11 children. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, graduating in 1838. Like many doctors before and since, Dr Penfold had a firm belief in the medicinal value of wine. Before he left Britain he had obtained vine cuttings from the south of France and these were planted around the site of the modest stone cottage he built with his wife, Mary, at Magill on the outskirts of Adelaide in 1845. The couple called this house The Grange, after Mary's home in England. Penfolds»
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