Penfolds Grange Hermitage 1954
$3499999each
$41999897/DOZ
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Regions Adelaide Hills & Barossa
  South Australia
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Dozen $419998.97
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A Heritage-listed wine, the story of Grange is steeped in the Australian ethos. Penfolds 1954 Grange is extremely rare, a curio and valuable collector's item. All but extremely fine bottles are well past their peak. Internal criticism of Grange led Max Schubert to lighten the style slightly and the 1954 had only about nine months in oak. The criticism fired at Max Schubert's early Granges reflected the conservatism prevalent throughout winemaking circles.
Max first crafted Grange when he returned from a trip to Bordeaux in 1950% Australian reds of the time were relatively elegant wines with medium concentration after maturation in old oak. Max began using new, unprior use small oak barrels to finish the fermentation and mature the wine. People thought he was crazy, they considered the wine undrinkable, his bosses at Penfolds disowned it and ordered production to stop. This vintage 1954 is from Magill Estate, and the Kalimna Vineyard in the Barossa, it included a small amount (2 per cent) of Cabernet Sauvignon A cool to mild growing season followed by a mild to warm vintage. Maturation for nine months in American oak hogsheads. Alcohol 13.20% pH 3.62.
TASTING NOTES
Winemaker comments by Max Schubert: Medium brick red. Sandalwood, cinnamon, smoky, chocolate amomas with some maderised characters. The palate is beginning to dryout, but is well concentrated with some roasted, smoky, chocolate flavours and leafy/savoury tannins.
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About the Penfolds Winery
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»