Penfold Grange 2003 Shiraz

Description

COLOUR Deep red.
NOSE Captivating, complex, complete.
Unravelling aromatics unfurl with air - blue fruit
notes entwined with barrel ferment and
maturation elements; nothing singular, always in
tandem. Sweet soy, cola and quince paste high
notes escape from an ethereal layer (aniseed,
fennel and fresh treacle ginger pudding) wafting
above.
PALATE Dark and liqueur chocolate, laced with Moroccan
spices. An underlying tar/graphite blackness is
lifted by derived fruit/quince pie flavours - a few
years earlier they may have been more brashly
varietal and elemental. Pronounced tannins
sweep across the palate, although they are
certainly part of the wine, never obtrusive.
Long, layered and compelling, this wine is at the
spicier end of the Grange spectrum

 

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