Overview
| Condition | Cellared | ||||
| GST: | Inclusive (GST Not Applicable on Item, See below note) | ||||
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| Location | NSW | ||||
| Category | Private Cellar | ||||
| Enquiry | Grays Help Centre | ||||
| Lot ID | 0002-10744550 | ||||
| Part of Sale | NSW P/Up ONLY - Fine Wine Magnums & Large Format | ||||
| Warranty | No Warranty Applies. Warranty
No Warranty Applies. |
Please Note:
- Signed by John Duval.
- Ullage level mid to high shoulder - Item shows evidence of a previous leak.
- This vintage is known for slightly undersized corks.
- Please refer to your winner's email for details on booking a collection.
No other red wine in Australia can rival the reputation, consistent quality or proven development pattern of Penfolds Grange. The pinnacle of the Penfolds red wine range, Grange is a rich, opulent, full-bodied Shiraz, destined for a long cellar life.
The winemaking process involves great attention to detail; from selecting the best possible grapes sourced from low-yielding, old Shiraz vines through to fermentation and fastidious oak maturation. The unique and distinctive Grange style is based on ripe Shiraz fruit and stylish American oak in fine harmony.
The 1987 Grange is a blend of Shiraz (90%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (10%).
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- Region:
- SA - Other South Australian
- State:
- South Australia
- Country:
- Australia
Expert Reviews
"A light, elegant style of Grange made with a blend of 90% Shiraz and 10% Cabernet Sauvignon, this wine has a deep ruby/purple color and a spicy, peppery nose with some new oak, black cherry, and blackberry flavors. The wine shows some dry tannin in the finish that may ultimately prove worrisome given the less-than-massive style of this vintage. Nevertheless, there is still a lot to like in this wine, which is very pure, ripe, and medium to full-bodied. Anticipated maturity: 2003-2016."
Rating 90 - Robert Parker, Wine Advocate - Tasted Feb 2002
James Halliday, Weekend Australian, Dec. 1988: Remarkably scented and fragrant, with exuberant minty/cassis fruit in great harmony with the oak. A cool-year wine showing remarkable finesse together with great depth of flavour.
Huon Hooke, 1993: Deep colour... shy, dusty nose which needs coaxing to show an oaky, vanillin young Grange nose with blackberry fruit beneath. Concentrated, with deep, sweet fruit and mint on the middle palate, very big and solid with a firm, authoritative finish. Very tannic at this point and needs to be left alone. A very good Grange.
Winery Tasting Notes
Colour: Medium crimson.
Bouquet: Appealing red berry/mint chocolate aromas and subtle oak nuances.
Palate: A well-concentrated wine with redcurrant/blackberry/chocolate/mint flavours and fine, leafy, chewy tannins. Very firm, dry finish.
Winery Profile
From humble beginnings in the 1950s, Grange has maintained its place as Australia's most prestigious red wine over five decades. Today, it is a wine of international renown, with each vintage eagerly awaited by collectors both in Australia and overseas.
Penfolds Grange is a wine of extraordinary dimension and power. Richly textured, intensely concentrated and packed with fruit sweetness, these wines, regardless of vintage, require medium to long-term cellaring. They develop into immensely complex, beguiling wines that seduce the senses.
An Australian icon, Grange represents a tradition in winemaking that is totally uncompromising. Grange has bypassed the fads and trends of modern winemaking in the sense that it has maintained an integrity of style and remained true to its origins in the mind of Max Schubert. Penfolds Grange is the quality standard against which all other Australian red wines are judged. To share a mature Grange, 15 to 20 years old, in fine condition, is one of the great wine experiences.
Chris Shanahan, 26 May 2010, The Canberra Times“It has an inky deep colour, overwhelming aroma and flavour impact of ripe, dense, sweet fruit, mouth-flooding tannins, distinctive flavour of American oak and a buoyant lift. This is a great wine of rare dimension. Over many decades, it will mellow and grow paler, becoming more fragile and ethereal.”
Penfolds Bin 95 Grange
The wine market was changing rapidly by the late 1940s, as soldiers returned from the war and new immigrants settled in Australia. Max Schubert, then a young winemaker at Penfolds, returned to Europe after the war to investigate winemaking. The mission was to learn about sherry production, however a side trip to Bordeaux led to Schubert experimenting with a long-lived red wine that he called Grange.
Schubert looks back on the 1950s Grange years as exciting years of discovery, faith, doubt, and ultimately triumph. In contrast, the 1960s were a period of vindication and Grange stole a march on the rest of the Australian wine industry by setting an incomparable benchmark for longevity, concentration and balance.
Penfolds Grange is Australia’s pre-eminent first growth. It is a very perfumed concentrated wine, which combines the intensely rich fruit and ripe tannins of shiraz with the fragrance and complementary nuances of new, fine-grained American oak. Partial barrel fermentation takes place at the tail-end of primary fermentation. It weaves the two elements together producing a meaty complexity and roundness of flavours on the palate.
A portion of cabernet sauvignon is used in some years to enhance the aromatics and palate structure. After vindication the wine is matured in new American oak hogshead for around 20 months. The best vintages last for more than 50 years.
Top Vintages
2010, 2008, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 1999, 1998, 1996, 1991, 1990, 1986, 1980, 1976, 1971, 1966, 1963, 1962, 1955, 1953. The experimental and hidden Granges are extremely rare
Other Information
- 1987 vintage
- 1 x 750mL unit
- SA - Other South Australian, South Australia
- Cork closure
- 13.8% alc.
Asset Collection
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Pick up location: Yennora, NSW, 2161.
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Warranty Details
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Cellar Condition
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Wines displaying a 5 star designation are recognised as being of proven quality provenance, our team has verified that the wine has been stored correctly from original purchase straight from the winery, documentation, where possible, has been sighted and cellaring conditions have been inspected. This wine generally comes from only the best and most respected of wine collectors in Australia.
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Wines displaying a 4 star designation have been cellared correctly as verified by the current owners. In general these wines have been purchased from retailers or traders and stored in cellared conditions from original purchase.
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A wine displaying no stars doesn’t mean that there is a problem with the wine, it simply means that we have been unable to verify provenance, however a quality image is always available for the purchaser to make their own purchasing decisions.
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NSW P/UP ONLY - Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Hermitage 1987 (1x 1.5L) SA.
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