Wine Enthusiast:  Designated a "Cellar Selection, ranked 26 Top Wine in 2000, and rated as a "classic:  a great wine."

"A massive wine, majestic in its proportions,combining power and grace in equal measure. Flavors of plum, blackberry, chocolate and pepper, with hints of cedar, licorice and mint, swirl through the exotic finish. Tannins swarm but don't overwhelm the finish, which echoes all day and night. Best from 2004 through 2020."  Dec 2000

Winery:  "Grange is an icon, being both Australia's and Penfolds' flagship wine. Grange boasts an unbroken line of vintages from the experimental 1951 and clearly demonstrates the synergy between Shiraz and the soils and climate of South Australia.

Color:  A deep, crimson red with a dense ruby core.  Nose: Immediately engaging, with wafts of nutmeg and ginger amongst notes of blueberry and blackcurrant and a background of well-seasoned savoury oak. The fruit gains in the glass with aeration, when more subtle perfume and chestnut complexities emerge.  Palate:  Already showing excellent balance within the frame of a beautifully interwoven mesh of dark plum and blackberry fruits with fig and liquorice. Complex fruit and spice flavours sit against a finely focused backdrop of firm but rounded tannins. Peak drinking:  now until 2025."

Size:  750ml; cork
Varietal:  96% Shiraz, 4% Cabernet
Alcohol:  14.%
Aging:  20 months in new American oak
Region:  South Australia - Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale & Bordertown.

Cellar note:  this wine was purchased upon release, stored in the same temperature- and humidity-controlled cellar, and never moved. Following wine-trade traditions, all bottles ten years or older are purchased at the buyer's risk.