served without decanting right after opening. Nose was more green and grassy than expected. About 30 minutes later this was more minty, and lacking the coconut butter that usually comes with this wine and this vintage. Still some oak on the nose, sweet but not the same richness typical of Grange. More than 1½ hours later there was a little more sweet fruit, a little smoke, then some savory minerals and black olives more than 2 hours after opening. Unfortunately I do think there was a little cork taint here. Not bad to the point of the wine being undrinkable, but just very disappointing and not really enjoyable.
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"90th" Joint Birthday: Woody spices, blackcurrant, ash and strawberry. Palate has a burst of flavour, with good fruit weight still. Feels quite well balanced, this seems to have come around versus a bottle 15 years ago that was a bit clumsy.
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Dark garnet to purple color in the glass, clear looking throughout. Nose of alfalfa, black pepper, currants, spice box, camphor and rose petals. Flavors or red berries, cranberries, red cherries and minerals. Medium to bright acidity, drying tannin, full bodied. Drink now with some air or continue to hold.
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4/19/2024 - Peech wrote: flawed
served without decanting right after opening. Nose was more green and grassy than expected. About 30 minutes later this was more minty, and lacking the coconut butter that usually comes with this wine and this vintage. Still some oak on the nose, sweet but not the same richness typical of Grange. More than 1½ hours later there was a little more sweet fruit, a little smoke, then some savory minerals and black olives more than 2 hours after opening. Unfortunately I do think there was a little cork taint here. Not bad to the point of the wine being undrinkable, but just very disappointing and not really enjoyable.
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9/28/2023 - acyso wrote: flawed
Four decades of Penfolds Grange (Chicago, IL): Corked. Very, very grippy tannins.
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9/24/2022 - CamWheeler wrote: 91 Points
"90th" Joint Birthday: Woody spices, blackcurrant, ash and strawberry. Palate has a burst of flavour, with good fruit weight still. Feels quite well balanced, this seems to have come around versus a bottle 15 years ago that was a bit clumsy.
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8/31/2022 - BrionHammond Likes this wine: 92 Points
My birthyear. Colored by that maybe but dusty library with a hint of wet basement. The shiraz wasn't that present. Lovely glass
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7/7/2022 - wineismylife wrote: 94 Points
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Tasted non blind.
Dark garnet to purple color in the glass, clear looking throughout. Nose of alfalfa, black pepper, currants, spice box, camphor and rose petals. Flavors or red berries, cranberries, red cherries and minerals. Medium to bright acidity, drying tannin, full bodied. Drink now with some air or continue to hold.
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