1999 Grange
Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 4:15 pm
Penfolds own note:
http://www.penfolds.com/Grange/tastingn ... ge1999.pdf
And from Langtons:
"1999 Grange Review by Andrew Caillard MW.
The forthcoming release of 1999 Penfolds Grange will no doubt create plenty of media and consumer interest. Along with the health of the economy and the fortunes of the Australian Cricket team, the quality of each Grange vintage seems to rate high in the national psyche. As a specialist wine auctioneer, I am often asked about Grange vintages. It is a wine which I know extremely well through the auction market, the Penfolds Red Wine Clinics and various tastings over the years including three editions of the Penfolds Rewards of Patience. Inevitably - like the 1962 versus 1963 and 1990 versus the 1991 - the 1999 Penfolds Grange will lie in the shadow of the much hyped but beautifully made 1998 vintage. While I admired the 1998 greatly at the recent Rewards of Patience tasting I preferred the 1999 vintage (by a whisker). Indeed it is an astonishingly lovely wine with really fragrant plum/prune/tobacco/aniseed aromas, apricot nuances and meaty complexity. The palate is deeply concentrated with curtains of plum apricot fruit, fine supple tannins, beautifully integrated malty oak and superb flavour length. It is certainly a most seductive wine with plenty of cellaring potential. This is certainly great Grange (100/100). The 1999 Penfolds Grange and the fifth edition of Penfolds Rewards of Patience will be released on May 1st."
So, wotz that Parker bloke got to say 'bout it?
http://www.penfolds.com/Grange/tastingn ... ge1999.pdf
And from Langtons:
"1999 Grange Review by Andrew Caillard MW.
The forthcoming release of 1999 Penfolds Grange will no doubt create plenty of media and consumer interest. Along with the health of the economy and the fortunes of the Australian Cricket team, the quality of each Grange vintage seems to rate high in the national psyche. As a specialist wine auctioneer, I am often asked about Grange vintages. It is a wine which I know extremely well through the auction market, the Penfolds Red Wine Clinics and various tastings over the years including three editions of the Penfolds Rewards of Patience. Inevitably - like the 1962 versus 1963 and 1990 versus the 1991 - the 1999 Penfolds Grange will lie in the shadow of the much hyped but beautifully made 1998 vintage. While I admired the 1998 greatly at the recent Rewards of Patience tasting I preferred the 1999 vintage (by a whisker). Indeed it is an astonishingly lovely wine with really fragrant plum/prune/tobacco/aniseed aromas, apricot nuances and meaty complexity. The palate is deeply concentrated with curtains of plum apricot fruit, fine supple tannins, beautifully integrated malty oak and superb flavour length. It is certainly a most seductive wine with plenty of cellaring potential. This is certainly great Grange (100/100). The 1999 Penfolds Grange and the fifth edition of Penfolds Rewards of Patience will be released on May 1st."
So, wotz that Parker bloke got to say 'bout it?