Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 2013
Penfolds-Bin-95-Grange-2013

Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 2013

Sale price$945.00
Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale & Others, South Australia, Australia

Style: Red Wine

Varieties: Shiraz (96%), Cabernet Sauvignon (4%)

Closure: Cork

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Penfolds Bin 95 Grange 2013

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Producer: Penfolds

Country: Australia

Region: Multi Regional SA

Vintage: 2013

Critic Score: 100

Alcohol: 14.5 %

Size: 750 ml

Drink by: 2055


Gloriously, splendiferously complex. There are so many layers of flavour - James Halliday

James Suckling Top 100 Wines of Australia 2017 

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 is profoundly scented. Unfurling and slowly building in the mouth with wonderful grace and depth, it reveals an incredible array of ripe black fruit, spice, meat and earth-inspired flavors, with a rock-solid frame to support this beauty (it should easily cellar for 40+ years!), while previously latent flavors emerge fully on the epically long finish, culminating in that ultimate Grange experience. Oh, yes."  Lisa Perrotti-Brown

The 2013 Penfolds Grange is a blend of 96% shiraz and 4% cabernet sauvignon from premium vineyards in the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra and Magill Estate. The wine was matured for 20 months in American oak hogsheads (100% new).

"Deep crimson. Intense elderberry, aniseed, blackberry, liquorice and iodine aromas with leafy herb garden complexity. Rich, concentrated and densely plush wine with deep-set creamy blackcurrant and blackberry fruits, brambly chalky textures, plentiful dark chocolate, mocha and black coffee notes with pronounced acidity. A firm, brutish wine with sappy tannin notes. Not ready. Drinking well, but will improve with time. Peak drinking 2035 to 2060."  Penfolds

Expert reviews

"Remember that old Heinz Ketchup "anticipation” ad from the 1970s? The palate of this 2013 Grange does just that. It makes you wait with so much delicious promise being drip fed into the mouth at first—and then it bursts forth and delivers! This vintage is a blend of 96% Shiraz and 4% Cabernet Sauvignon, coming from the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra and Magill Estate. Very deep inky purple-black colored, the 2013 Grange has a profoundly scented nose of crème de cassis, preserved black plums, blueberry pie and licorice over nuances of baker's chocolate, smoky bacon and fragrant earth, plus exotic spice wafts of cumin seed, cardamom, fenugreek and star anise. Unfurling and slowly building in the medium to full-bodied mouth with wonderful grace and depth, it reveals an incredible array of ripe black fruit, spice, meat and earth-inspired flavors, with a rock-solid frame to support this beauty (it should easily cellar for 40+ years!), while previously latent flavors emerge fully on the epically long finish, culminating in that ultimate Grange experience. Oh, yes."  Lisa Perrotti-Brown, Wine Advocate – 100 points

"96% shiraz, 4% cabernet sauvignon from the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra and Magill Estate, matured for 20 months in new American hogsheads. Gloriously, splendiferously complex. There are so many layers of flavour it's labyrinthine, yet you never lose the thread, the path, of the wine. Austerity is not a term often used with Grange, but it's here, and to the benefit of the wine. Alcohol: 14.5%; Drink by: 2053."  James Halliday, Halliday Wine Companion - 99 points

"An intoxicating Grange, deeply coloured and yet vibrant, and full to the brim with inimitable character that can only be Grange. Layers of satsuma plums, blackberries and black pepper meet dark chocolate, layered with wisps of coal steam, black olive and crushed ant. There is a high sheen polish to this release, and yet it offers space and effortless poise, without a detail out of place, set off magnificently with super fine yet confidently present tannins of grand endurance. This magic season is the ultimate proof that the even vintage pattern is over."  Tyson Stelzer, Wine Taste - 98 points

"Deep colour. Intense inky dark chocolate, cranberry, blackberry fruits, paneforte, aromas with vanilla roasted chestnut, savoury oak notes. Densely concentrated and ample with generous deep-set blackberry dark chocolate dark cherry sweet fruit notes, fine perfectly ripe yet vigorous and plentiful graphite tannins, vanilla mocha, marzipan, roasted chestnut oak complexity and meaty paneforte negroni-like nuances. Finishes minerally and flavourful with a long supple textural plume. A brilliant follow-up to the classic 2012 vintage. An outlasting and transcendent wine of lovely proportion, density and mineral length. Drink: 2027-2050+."  Andrew Caillard MW – 98 points

"A blend of 96% Shiraz and 4% Cabernet, this is a stunning Grange which easily compares in quality to 2010 and 2012. It is big, flamboyant and hedonistic on the nose and palate -- the former is full of kirsch, mulberry, balsam and a generous dollop of purposeful VA to lift the massive aroma from the glass. The latter is equally sweet, rich and dense as it brims with saturated flavours encompassing damson, blackberry, licorice, espresso, tarmac and cola. And so it's little or no surprise that this is also full to bursting with tannic heft and dry extract mouthfeel, all of which is expertly assuaged by refreshing acidity to keep it lithe and supple. It's still too young to say where this will sit in the Grange pantheon, but it's almost certainly going to be one to watch and enjoy for the next 30 to 40 years. Drinking Window 2020-2055." John Stimpfig, Decanter - 98 points

"Very deep, dense purple/red colour, very youthful and bright. The bouquet is toasty-oaky and smoky, loaded with char oak, the palate is very firm and tight, intense and concentrated, with remarkable density and focus, precision and line. The palate is all concentrated espresso coffee, bitter dark chocolate, black fruits, char oak, the persistence amazingly long. This needs more time and will richly reward those who are patient."  Huon Hooke, The Real Review – 97 points

"Served alongside the 2012 and it proved a keen competitor. Indeed it has classic Grange written all over it. Bold and brooding, formic, blackberried, vanillin, smoky. Sheeted with tannin. This is something of a return to the Grange-like tannin of yore. It gives the wine an extra impression of grunt; there's more iron behind the velvet. Length here does its best to reach into tomorrow. It's smooth, Grange always is, it's made as shiraz taken to the nth degree; but there's some buckle to this release, some swash. Quality put to one side for the moment and personal preference ushered in: I would take this over the 2012. It's not so gushy, not so plump; it's a Grange of muscle and rib."  Campbell Mattinson, The Wine Front - 96 points

Awards

Top 100 Wines of Australia 2017 - James Suckling

Wine region map of South Australia

South Australia

South Australian is responsible for more than half the production of all Australian wine. It is home to more than 900 wineries across 18 wine regions. The regions are Adelaide Hills, Adelaide Plains, Barossa Valley, Clare Valley, Coonawarra, Currency Creek, Eden Valley, Kangaroo Island, Langhorne Creek, McLaren Vale, Mount Benson, Mount Gambier, Padthaway, Riverland, Robe, Southern Fleurieu, Southern Flinders Ranges and Wrattonbully.

Many of the well-known names in the South Australian wine industry established their first vineyards in the late 1830s and early 1840s. The first vines in McLaren Vale were planted at Reynella in 1839 and Penfold's established Magill Estate on the outskirts of Adelaide in 1844.

South Australia has a vast diversity in geography and climate which allows the State to be able to produce a range of grape varieties - from cool climate Riesling in the Clare and Eden Vallies to the big, full bodied Shiraz wines of the Barossa Valley and McLaren Vale. Two of Australia's best-known wines, Penfolds Grange and Henschke Hill of Grace, are produced here. There is much to discover in South Australia for the wine lover.