Penfolds

Grange 2006 Magnum 1.5L

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  Vintage 2006
  100 points MW

This is classic, inimitable, perfect Grange. With its deep saturated colour, intensely fresh berry/ mocha/ roasted chestnut aromas, rich velvety palimpsest of flavours and wonderful vinosity, it evokes Max Schubert's "buoyant and ethereal" vision splendid. This is great lasting legend-making Grange; a beautifully aromatic & voluminous wine with superb fruit complexity, balance of weight, substance & texture. Seductive, elemental & expressive, it will develop & improve beautifully over the forthcoming decades. 

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  Vintage 2006
  99 points

This is Barossa shiraz, sufficient to be labelled as such, with tiny quantities of Coonawarra and Magill and just 2% cabernet. A marvel of flavour engineering, throbbing with satsuma plum skin, black pastilles, liquorice, coal, black olives, iodine and exotic spice. Immense, nutty oak lurks behind the fruit at every moment like a dark shadow. Seamless, impeccably refined tannins rise like a tsunami. Controlled, focused and honed; another heroic Grange has ascended to the lineage of legends.