It was never sold as a Grange, for it was only ever made as a trial wine, but that hasn’t prevented the so-called 1951 Grange from attracting an extraordinary amount of interest. The bottle I tasted at the landmark Anders Josephson tasting a decade ago in 1994 was well and truly past its best (ie stuffed), but that alone will not stop someone from bidding an estimated A$40,000 for a bottle of this very rare, extremely tired, but rather assumptively named wine. For someone wanting to realise an investment bottle has put one up for sale at Oddbins’ Silent Bid Wine Auction of June 15th. Oddbins rate this particular bottle as ‘amongst the best’ they have ever seen, ‘in terms of quality, cellaring, and label condition’. Very nice, I’m sure, but what does that actually mean from a real quality perspective?
