1 bottle per lot
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A MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF RARE GRANGE, VINTAGES 1961 TO 1977
Lying in Kemble, Gloucestershire (Octavian)
Offered duty-paid, but available in bond
All the following bottles of Grange have U.S. slip labels. Comments and tasting notes are reproduced with the kind permission of Langtons Fine Wine Auctions, Australia and are taken from their Penfolds Grange Shiraz 50th Anniversay Wine Auction, November 2001. Tasting notes are by Andrew Caillard M.W (A.C.) and Michael Broadbent M.W. (M.B.) and The Rewards of Patience, 4th edition (R.O.P.)
Grange Hermitage--Vintage 1961
South Australia. Penfolds
Re-corked at the Penfold's Wine Clinic in 1996. Stained label. Level into neck
First Grange to utilise Coonawarra grapes. 2 gold and 3 silver medals in Australian wine shows between 1963 and 1968.
Tasting note: brick red. Developed mushroomy aromas and flavours, some sweet fruit and soft tannins. Rare. A.C.
1 bottle per lot
Lying in Kemble, Gloucestershire (Octavian)
Offered duty-paid, but available in bond
All the following bottles of Grange have U.S. slip labels. Comments and tasting notes are reproduced with the kind permission of Langtons Fine Wine Auctions, Australia and are taken from their Penfolds Grange Shiraz 50th Anniversay Wine Auction, November 2001. Tasting notes are by Andrew Caillard M.W (A.C.) and Michael Broadbent M.W. (M.B.) and The Rewards of Patience, 4th edition (R.O.P.)
Grange Hermitage--Vintage 1961
South Australia. Penfolds
Re-corked at the Penfold's Wine Clinic in 1996. Stained label. Level into neck
First Grange to utilise Coonawarra grapes. 2 gold and 3 silver medals in Australian wine shows between 1963 and 1968.
Tasting note: brick red. Developed mushroomy aromas and flavours, some sweet fruit and soft tannins. Rare. A.C.
1 bottle per lot
Special notice
Offered duty paid, but available in bond. VAT at 17.5% will be charged on the hammer price on removal of the lot from bond.