2 bottles per lot
Details
Grange Hermitage--Vintage 1975
South Australia. Penfolds
Lot 577 slightly bin-soiled labels. Levels base of neck. Lot 578 one recorked at the Penfold's Wine Clinic in 1994. One slightly bin-soiled and one bin-soiled label. Levels into neck. Lot 579 one label slightly bin-soiled and stained and one bin-soiled and slightly damaged. Levels base of neck
Considered a good yet tannic Grange. The year that Max Schubert retired from his post as chief winemaker, although he remained a consultant at Penfolds and kept an office at Magill until his death in 1994. Don Ditter, who had worked with Penfolds as a winemaker since 1946, succeeded him as chief winemaker.
Tasting note: brick red. Restrained, difficult wine with sweet burnished leather/meaty/liquorice aromas. The palate is thick and brooding with deep set, leathery, almost one dimensional fruit, high concentration and bitter, furry tannins, finishing firm. This is the kind of wine that goes on and on forever. It is a very unyielding wine yet could open up and surprise us. A.C.
2 bottles per lot
South Australia. Penfolds
Lot 577 slightly bin-soiled labels. Levels base of neck. Lot 578 one recorked at the Penfold's Wine Clinic in 1994. One slightly bin-soiled and one bin-soiled label. Levels into neck. Lot 579 one label slightly bin-soiled and stained and one bin-soiled and slightly damaged. Levels base of neck
Considered a good yet tannic Grange. The year that Max Schubert retired from his post as chief winemaker, although he remained a consultant at Penfolds and kept an office at Magill until his death in 1994. Don Ditter, who had worked with Penfolds as a winemaker since 1946, succeeded him as chief winemaker.
Tasting note: brick red. Restrained, difficult wine with sweet burnished leather/meaty/liquorice aromas. The palate is thick and brooding with deep set, leathery, almost one dimensional fruit, high concentration and bitter, furry tannins, finishing firm. This is the kind of wine that goes on and on forever. It is a very unyielding wine yet could open up and surprise us. A.C.
2 bottles per lot
Special notice
ParcelWineOffered duty paid, but available in bond. VAT at 17.5% will be charged on the hammer price on removal of the lot from bond.