Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 2017

Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 2017James Halliday Top 100 Wines of 2021 Penfolds Bin 95 Grange Shiraz is Australia's most famous wine with a reputation for superb fruit complexity and flavour richness. It is the most powerful expression of Penfolds multi vineyard, multi district blending philosophy and is officially listed as a Heritage Icon of South Australia. One of the world's great wines. "It's very full bodied and concentrated, powerful and long lasting, but the tannins are

This shows particularly in the stunning single-vineyard chardonnays and pinots of Giant Steps: distinctive wines that reflect their sites and glow with impeccable finesse

Popularized in Bordeaux but adapted for use in places like Montalcino

yet delicate

It has a long cellaring life ahead

and there is significant diurnal variation preserving fresh acidity

The writing was on the wall – he saw in Marlborough a combination of climate and soils that could create a Méthode Traditionelle to rival those wines of his native Champagne

The first acre of vines was planted in 1973 by the pioneering George and Priscilla Park

"Opens rich and lush

Drink it to 2016+

35% chardonnay and 17% pinot meunier

and important brand to the Australian wine industry

mostly falling outside of veraison