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1980 Penfolds Grange Hermitage Bin 95 750ml

1980 Penfolds Grange Hermitage Bin 95 750ml is new with an unbroken seal. The bottle is 750ml and it is 12.5% alc. vol. which equates to approx. 7 standard drinks.

http://www.penfolds.com/library/tasting/grange1980.pdf

Penfolds Grange Hermitage 1988

Considered an outstanding vintage in Penfolds rewards of Patience (4th edition, 2000).’Very good. I like this, it’s just about perfect!’, said Tim White, at the rewards of Patience tastings in September 1999.

‘Very big-boned and just starting to ease into a long final straight. I suspect this is - will be - a classic,’ said Anthony Rose at the same tasting.

The 1980 Penfolds Grange is predominantly Shiraz with a small amount of Cabernet Sauvignon (4%).

Vineyard region Kalimna (Barossa Valley), Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Magill (adelaide), Mclaren Vale and Coonawarra in South australia.

Vintage Conditions generally good growing season with fine and warm conditions followed by a cool vintage. another unusual vintage in that

the grapes ripened late, but were very full.

Grape Variety Shiraz (Syrah), Cabernet Sauvignon

Maturation Eighteen months in newamerican oak hogsheads.

Wine analysis

alc/Vol: 12.50%

acidity: 6.00g/l

ph: 3.6

last tasted 1-Sep-03

peak drinking Now - 2025

Winemaker comments by

Don Ditter

Colour Medium red/purple.

Nose intense, fragrant chocolate/cherry/prune/dried fig aromas.

Palate Dense and chewy with generously ripe, prune/chocolate fruit flavours, pronounced grainy tannins and superb length.

Penfolds

Penfolds is an Australian wine producer, founded in 1844 by Dr. Christopher Rawson Penfold, an English physician who emigrated to Australia. It is one of Australia's oldest wineries and a company brand with an extensive product range.

History

Penfold was a believer in the medicinal benefits of wine and before emigrating to Australia, obtained some vine cuttings from France. Arriving in Australia, he set up in practice at Magill on the eastern outskirts of Adelaide, South Australia and planted vines around his stone cottage which he called The Grange after his wife, Mary's, former home. Initially, Penfold produced fortified wines, for his patients in the style of sherry and port. As demand for the wines increased the winery was expanded.

Mary Penfold assumed the running of the winery after the death of her husband in 1870. After Mary retired in 1884 her daughter Georgina and son-in-law Thomas Hyland took over the day to day running of the winery. The Penfold family continued to operate the business very successfully and although the company became public in 1962 the Penfold family remained in control until 1976.

During the 1940's and 1950's the company changed its focus to table wines to accommodate changing tastes. This led to experiments by Penfolds' chief winemaker, Max Schubert which would eventually lead to the production of Penfolds' and Australia's most famous wine, Grange Hermitage, later renamed simply Grange.

Control of Penfolds passed to Tooth & Co, a brewer based in New South Wales in 1976, to the Adelaide Steamship Co in 1982 and then in 1990 to S.A.Brewing which became part of Southcorp, an Australian conglomerate. Since 2005, the Southcorp wine brands and wineries have been owned by the Foster's Group. Penfolds currently operates two wineries; at Magill, near Adelaide and at Nuriootpa in the Barossa Valley.

Penfolds Grange

Penfolds Grange (until the 1989 vintage labelled Penfolds Grange Hermitage) is an Australian wine, made predominantly from the Shiraz (Syrah) grape and usually a small percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon. It is widely considered Australia's "first growth" and its most collectable wine. The term "Hermitage", the name of a French wine appellation, was commonly used in Australia as another synonym for Shiraz or Syrah. In 1953 two versions of Grange were made, one 87% Shiraz and 13% Cabernet Sauvignon, the other 10% Cabernet Sauvignon.

History

The first vintage of Penfolds Grange was made on an experimental basis in 1951 by winemaker Max Schubert, while he was employed by Penfolds Wines. Having toured Europe in 1950, Schubert implemented wine-making techniques observed in Bordeaux upon his return, aiming to create a red wine able to rival the finest Bordeaux wines both in terms of quality and ageing potential.

Individual bottles of the 1951 vintage are still held by collectors; one sold at auction in 2004 for just over A$50,000. The first vintage to be commercially released was the 1952. Penfolds Grange was styled as a powerful still wine in an age when fortified wines were in fashion. Negative reviews by wine critics and poor commercial prospects for the wine led Penfolds management in 1957 to forbid Schubert from producing Penfolds Grange, but Schubert persisted in secret through 1959. As the initial vintages aged, however, their true value came to be appreciated, and in 1960 the management instructed Schubert to re-start production, oblivious to the fact that Schubert had not missed a vintage.

The great 1955 vintage was submitted to competitions beginning in 1962 and over the years has won more than 50 gold medals. The vintage of 1971 won first prize in Shiraz at the Wine Olympics in Paris. The 1990 vintage was named 'Red Wine of the Year' by the Wine Spectator magazine in 1995, which later rated the 1998 vintage 99 points out of a possible 100.

Penfolds Grange also carries a "Bin" designation, referring to its storage location in Penfolds cellars while aging. 1951 was Bin 1, 1952 was Bin 4, and later vintages carried various designations. By 1964 the designation was standardised as "Bin 95."

By the end of the 1980s the wine came to be regarded as a collector's item. The name "Hermitage" was dropped from the label with the 1990 vintage, following objections by the European Union authorities to the use of a French place-name, as no third-country wine entering EU may carry a geographical name recognized by European wine officials.

Production style

Unlike most expensive cult wines from the Old World, which are from single vineyards or even small plots (called blocks) within vineyards, Grange is made from grapes harvested over a wide area. This means that the precise composition of the wine will change from year to year and it is the branding and expertise of the winemaking which purchasers value, rather than the qualities of the specific places where the grapes are grown or the particular vines. The quantity of Penfolds Grange produced varies considerably from year to year and is a carefully guarded secret. Despite the vagaries of grape sourcing and vintage variation due to growing conditions, some believe that there is a consistent and recognisable "Penfolds Grange" style.

Ownership

In May 2005, ownership of the Penfolds brand, along with its museum collection of Penfolds Grange, passed to Foster's Group upon its acquisition of the previous owner, Southcorp Limited.

Max Schubert

Max Schubert AM (9 February 1915 - 6 March 1994) was a pioneering Australian winemaker who is best known as the creator of Grange Hermitage.

He joined Penfolds in the early 1930s as a messenger boy and became chief winemaker in 1948 through 1975. The 1955 vintage of Grange Hermitage was submitted to wine competitions beginning in 1962 and over the years has won more than 50 gold medals. The 1971 vintage won first prize in Syrah/Shiraz at the Wine Olympics in Paris. The 1990 vintage was named 'Red Wine of the Year' by the Wine Spectator magazine in 1995, which later rated the 1998 vintage 99 points out of a possible 100.

His other innovations included the use of plastics, refrigeration, pH control, and cold stabilisation of white wines.

He received many awards, including Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and the inaugural Maurice O'Shea Award for his contribution to the Australian wine industry. He was also named 1988 Man of the Year by London's Decanter Magazine.

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