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Penfolds Grange Shiraz 1992
$875.00Jeremy’s score 94/100A fine, elegant and restrained, lighter expression of the traditional Grange style. Its briary aromas of raspberries, cassis, dark plums and sweet vanilla/coconut oak are lifted with scents of violets, cloves and eastern spice. Medium to full in weight – a reflection of the cooler season – its brightly lit core of primary fruit – cassis and raspberries, especially – extends smooth and silky along a fine-grained spine of powdery tannins, finishing with just a hint of prune.
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Penfolds Grange Shiraz 1994
$850.00Jeremy’s score 97/100Classically complex and elegant, unfolding a perfume of vibrant black and red fruits, five spice, polished leather, camphor and antique furniture polish backed by a hint of roasting tray juices. Emphatic and complete, with a fiery core of intense flavour extending long and persistent down a firmish, fine-grained spine, it’s rich, smooth and full of life; a benchmark maturing Grange with plenty of life and development ahead.
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Penfolds Grange Shiraz 1998
$995.00Jeremy’s score 97/100An absolute fruit-bomb. Steeped in black fruits, it’s concentrated and ethereal, with a complex spicy, musky and lightly peppery aroma enhanced by assertive lightly toasty coconut and chocolate-like American oak. There’s also a gamey suggestion of smoked meat. Sumptuous, powerful, concentrated and astringent, its intense, briary fruit is long and seamless, thickly coated with smoky new vanilla/coconut oak, treacle and licorice. Warm and spirity to finish, it’s a muscular and massive Grange that should cellar for at least twenty years from its making.
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Penfolds Grange Shiraz 1999
$880.00Jeremy’s score 96/100Superbly elegant, reserved and harmonious shiraz, reflecting the intensity and brightness of the pristine small berry flavours so typical of the 1999 South Australian vintage. A briary perfume of violets, raspberries, blueberries, dark plums and cassis is sympathetically matched by assertive nuances of vanilla and chocolate oak aromas. Silky-smooth, beautifully controlled and refined, its long and willowy palate reveals intense and translucent small berry flavours superbly integrated with oak and satiny tannins. A profound change in style from the 1998 release that reflects the very best of its vintage. Has developed wonderful leathery and earthy complexity over time.
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Penfolds Grange Shiraz 2002
$895.00Jeremy’s score 97/100Deep, closed and brooding, with perfectly ripened aromas of dark berries, plums and typical smoky cedar/vanilla/dark chocolate Penfolds oak that become more fragrant with aeration, revealing scents of violets, cloves and cinnamon. Smooth, unctuous and exceptionally elegant for Grange, its voluptuous palate of black cherries, plums, black olives and smoky dark oak finishes with exceptional length of vibrant fruit over suggestions of minerals and vanilla. The longer it’s opened, the silkier and more ethereal it becomes, as the quality of its fine-grained tannin becomes apparent. A classic reflection of a great cool vintage.
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Penfolds Grange Shiraz 2005
$830.00Jeremy’s score 95/100Wild, ripe, meaty and briary, this densely packed and very slightly baked Grange is indeed a wine of its vintage. Its floral, earthy perfume of deep blackberry, blueberry and dark plum aromas reveals suggestions of roasting pan scrapings, cinnamon-like spices, sweet chocolatey oak and evolving tanned leather. Wrapped with firm, astringent tannins, its long, smoky palate of dark, brooding fruit finishes quite savoury, with a lingering core of fruit. A little angular at present, it should settle down with time.
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Penfolds Grange Shiraz 2006
$920.00Jeremy’s score 91/100This impressively constructed shiraz has a briary, confiture and pastille-like bouquet whose aromas of blackberries, blueberries, dark cherries and plums are handsomely cloaked in mocha/chocolate oak, backed by earthy, suede leather notes and reveal nuances of prune, cola and currant. Enlivened by a fresh acidity and underpinned by finely astringent, powdery tannins, it reveals a moderate but not great length of bright, concentrated dark fruit that dries out towards a faintly raisiny, currant-like finish of soy and black tea.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Barossa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon 2021
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A fine, balanced and elegant Barossa cabernet whose deep cpre of juicy ripe fruit is knit with cedar/vanilla oak and supported by a fine, drying backbone. Scented with violets, blackberries and cassis, it’s medium to fullish in weight, very approachable right now and will certainly age well over the next four to five years.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Barossa Valley Shiraz 2022
$25.00Jeremy’s score 90/100A fine expression of Barossa Shiraz whose juicy aromas of black and red berries, fresh cedar/chocolate oak and five spice reveal nuances of licorice and bitumen. Round and generous, its rich core of blackberry and cassis-like fruit is underpinned by a firmish chalkiness, finishing long, balanced and with a lingering note of licorice. Great value.
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Peter Lehmann Hill & Valley Eden Valley Riesling 2024
$25.00Jeremy’s score 91/100A youthful, bright and punchy riesling deeply scented with lime juice, pear and green apple skin. It’s smooth, round and generous, with a pristine core of juicy citrus flavour extending long and approachable over a fine chalkiness towards a crisp and refreshing finish of tightly focused acidity.
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Peter Lehmann Stonewell Shiraz 2005
$650.00Jeremy’s score 93/100Deeply flavoured, this firmly structured, ripe and astringent shiraz reveals a briary, spicy bouquet whose deep scents of mulberries, dark cherries, blackberries and smoky vanilla/cedar oak are backed by nuances of dark olives. Brooding and deeply layered, with dark plum and berry flavours underpinned by drying, sinewy tannins, it is likely to flesh out with more fruit sweetness and roundness in the years ahead.
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Peter Lehmann Stonewell Shiraz 2018
$100.00Jeremy’s score 95/100A deep, measured and elegant Barossa shiraz whose complex and faintly meaty bouquet of blackberries, cassis, redcurrants and blood plums reveals fresh, faintly chocolatey cedar/vanilla oak lifted by suggestions of cracked pepper, eastern spices and baked earth. It’s long and complete, unfolding a charming drive of flavour underpinned by firm, fine tannins and building towards a lingering finish of dark fruit, licorice and a suggestion of roasting meats.
