Penfolds Grange Shiraz 2003 not on sale some very prestigious vineyards

some very prestigious vineyards

Monica Larner

it offers lots of crushed rock-like minerality

This dual oak treatment is part of Vietti's secret recipe for producing the silky tannins and fine texture you taste here

These give way to a full-bodied

Penfolds Grange Shiraz 2003 not on sale some very prestigious vineyardsA very ripe, assertive, profoundly structured and traditional warm year Grange whose dark, brooding and brambly fruit and lavish oak are supported by drying, firm and chalky tannin. It's still a bruising young wine, with a surprisingly floral and heady, jasmine like bouquet and dense layers of blackberries, blueberries, cassis and dark plums backed by smoky, meaty, dark chocolate and cedary influences. As it opens further, nuances of treacle, aniseed