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AN EVENING OF EXCEPTIONAL WINESFine Australian wine from a Private CellarPenfolds Grange Shiraz vertical collection in Magnum1979 - 1999* The 1990 Penfolds Grange was named ‘Wine of the Year’ in1995 by the world’s most authoritative wine magazine, WineSpectator, scoring 97/100 and becoming the only wineoutside California and France to take the award.* “Penfold’s Grange is the greatest red wine of Australia. Thiswine is a leading candidate for the richest, most concentrateddry red table wine on planet Earth. Penfolds’ Grange takesopulence and decadence to the limits, and for that reason hasreplaced Bordeaux’s Petrus as the world most exotic andconcentrated wine. It is interesting to note that a massive,extracted and overwhelming as this wine can be in this youth,with 10-15 years of age it takes on a more civilized character,resembling a great Pomerol or older hermitage.”Robert Parker* “Penfolds Grange has maintained its place as Australia’s mostprestigious red wine over four decades. An Australian icon,Grange represents a tradition in winemaking that is totallyuncompromising. Grange has bypassed the fads and trends ofmodern winemaking in the sense that it has maintained anintegrity of style and remained true to its origins in the mind ofMax Schubert. An unusually wet (but hot) growing season, the1979 was sourced from the Kalimna and other Barossavineyards, the Clare Valley, Magill Estate and the McLarenVale”Penfolds’ websiteWWW.SPINK.COM