2010 Grange

A kaleidoscopic sensorial unfolding! … Worth the wait – after a one decade deliberation this wine strenuously asserts Grange's positioning in the new millennium!

Peter Gago, Penfolds chief winemaker

99/100

The 2010 Grange is a 4% Cabernet Sauvignon and 96% Shiraz blend made from Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Adelaide Hills, McLaren Vale and Magill Estate fruit that was aged 17 months in 100% new American oak hogsheads.

Very deep purple-black in color, this is classic Grange – amongst the finest produced – replete with fresh, vibrant and youthful black fruit notes showing some blueberry aromas and accents of camphor, anise and the slightest floral hint plus a whiff of oak in the background to lend a cedar-laced lift to this textbook Shiraz nose.

Medium to full-bodied in the mouth, it is very taut and finely constructed showing typically firm, grainy, uniform tannins, great concentration and wonderful persistence on the finish.

If I have any very slight complaint of this near perfect wine it is that it seems a little too clinical and appears to speak less of the land and the heart of South Australia and more of the very skilled winemaking than did the Grange from the magical 2008 vintage.

Lisa Perrotti-Brown, www.erobertparker.com, February 2014

98/100

Harvey Steiman, www.winespectator.com

100/100

James Suckling, www.jamessuckling.com, February 2015