Penfolds
Grange St Louis Decanter 2013

Write the first review

Limited availability

Dry, Full Bodied style of Shiraz

About this product

Product description

Limited availability

Dry, Full Bodied style of Shiraz

This limited edition Penfolds Aevum Crystal Decanter with the 100 point Grange 2013 was released as part of a collaboration between Penfolds and Saint-Louis, who has been making handcrafted crystal artefacts in France since 1586. Hand-blown by Saint-Louis master craftsmen, each decanter is artistically designed to delicately aerate the wine.

Taste profile

Full Bodied

Full bodied red wines have a noticeably textural mouthfeel with bold, complex flavours. Often deeply coloured.

Dry

Dry wines have no trace of sweetness at all.

Product specifications

TypeShiraz
Size750mL
RegionMulti-Regional Blend
Current Vintage2013
Standard Drinks8.6
Alcohol Volume14.5%
Langtons ClassifiedExceptional
CountryAustralia
StateSouth Australia
Brand NamePenfolds
Wine MakerPeter Gago
ClosureCork
Wine SweetnessDry
Wine BodyFull Bodied

Expert reviews

Vintage 2013
100 points Roberparker.com
This vintage is a blend of 96% Shiraz and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, coming from the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra and Magill Estate. Very deep inky purple-black colored, the 2013 Grange has a profoundly scented nose of cr?me de cassis, preserved black plums, blueberry pie and licorice over nuances of baker's chocolate, smoky bacon and fragrant earth, plus exotic spice wafts of cumin seed, cardamom, fenugreek and star anise. Unfurling and slowly building in the medium to full-bodied mouth with wonderful grace and depth, it reveals an incredible array of ripe black fruit, spice, meat and earth-inspired flavors, with a rock-solid frame to support this beauty (it should easily cellar for 40+ years!), while previously latent flavors emerge fully on the epically long finish, culminating in that ultimate Grange experience. Oh, yes.
James Halliday

Australian wine writer, critic and winemaker
Vintage 2013
99 points www.winecompanion.com.au
96% shiraz, 4% cabernet sauvignon from the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra and Magill Estate, matured for 20 months in new American hogsheads. Gloriously, splendiferously complex. There are so many layers of flavour it''s labyrinthine, yet you never lose the thread, the path, of the wine. Austerity is not a term often used with Grange, but it''s here, and to the benefit of the wine.