chocolate, mocha, blackberry liquorice flavours, fine muscular tannins, meaty dried herb complexity and underlying roasted chestnut and vanilla oak notes. Firm chocolaty graphite finish with an attractive inky plume. A landmark Grange vintage.

87 percent shiraz, 13 percent cabernet sauvignon. Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley), Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, McLaren Vale and Modbury Vineyard (Adelaide). Don Ditter s last Grange.

Evolved, concentrated dark berry and slightly caramelised fruit with grippy unresolved tannins. (NB)

A savoury, meaty, earthy wine with sweet brambly fruit poking through. An ironstone spine and stern firmness. (NR)

1987 ««« Drink now to 2028.

A strongly tannic Grange with concentrated dark chocolate, dark fruit, herb, mint flavours and sappy leafy textures.

90 percent shiraz, 10 percent cabernet sauvignon. Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley), Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale.

1988 ««« Drink now to 2028.

A rich and voluminous wine with plentiful dark fruits, dark chocolate, raisin and mocha. Vigorous firm tannins and attractive sweet fruit finish.

94 percent shiraz, 6 percent cabernet sauvignon. Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley), Barossa Valley, Padthaway and McLaren Vale.

1989 ««««« Drink now to 2030.

Medium-deep crimson. Fresh dark chocolate, dark cherry, plum and panforte aromas with herb garden and sage notes. A well-concentrated, luscious wine with

deep-set fleshy raspberry, dark plum and dark cherry fruits, beautiful fine chocolaty/vigorous tannins, mocha coconut oak complexity notes, attractive sweet fruit viscosity and soft but persistent acidity. Finishes chocolaty firm with blackcurrant pastille leafy notes. Out-performs vintage reputation considerably.

91 percent shiraz, 9 percent cabernet sauvignon. Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley), Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale. The last vintage labelled as Grange Hermitage; future vintages are released as Grange .

Still gleaming with its underbrush-smoked meat complexity and beautiful silky textures. It s quite grippy underneath all of this but the top is still attached to the bottom. (NB)

Luscious black and blueberry fruits, superb mature characters, glorious fruit sweetness and round supple/seamless tannins. (JR)

1990 ««««« Drink now to 2060.

Medium-deep crimson, intense blackberry, dried plum, grilled nut, shellac, walnut panforte, cherry liqueur and chinotto aromas with roasted chestnut and vanilla notes. Generous ripe blackberry, dark chocolate, panforte, grilled nut and shellac flavours with chocolaty tannins, mocha vanilla spice and oak notes with beautifully balanced acidity. Finishes chocolaty firm with plenty of mineral length and freshness. A decadent and hedonistic wine with extraordinary fruit density and attack. One of the greatest.

95 percent shiraz, 5 percent cabernet sauvignon. Kalimna Vineyard (Barossa Valley), Barossa Valley, Clare Valley and Coonawarra. Voted Red Wine of the Year by Wine Spectator magazine in December 1995.

A famous vintage and wine. Everything is laid out with infinite precision finesse and length. At the peak of perfection. (JH)

Fresh, vibrant and voluminous with layers of cedar, spice and mulberries and underlying but animated tannins. (FW)

Peter Gago, Penfolds Chief Winemaker, in Cellar 2 at Penfolds Magill Estate

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