2001
Deep purple. A very attractive wine with dark chocolate/plummy/sandalwood aromas and sweet malty oak. The palate is rich and fleshy with plenty of fruit richness and dark chocolate/liquorice flavours. The tannins are fine and ripe building chalky at the finish. Lovely concentration and flavour length. Still elemental/unevolved. 94/100 AC 2003
 
2000
Penfolds renowned 2000 Grange is only the fifth vintage to be made from 100% Shiraz (the others being 1951, 1952, 1963 and 1999). It is also, atypically, 100% Barossa fruit. While it is not considered to be one of the great Granges, the 2000 exhibits outstanding potential. It has dense ruby/purple colour and a big, sweet nose of blackberries, cherries, chocolate and earth. With decent acidity, ripe, silky tannin, superb intensity, wonderful equilibrium, and a more open-knit, softer, accessible style than usual, it can be drunk now or cellared for 15-16 years. While this is no wimpy wine, it is an ideal example for those who are unwilling to invest the patience required for the big, blockbuster Granges. 90/100 R.P Jr. 2005
 
1999
Deep purple crimson. An astonishingly lovely wine with really fragrant plum/prune/tobacco/aniseed aromas, apricot nuances and meaty complexity. The palate is deeply concentrated with curtains of plum apricot fruit, fine supple tannins, beautifully integrated malty oak and superb flavour length. It is certainly a most seductive wine with plenty of cellaring potential. A classic Grange reflecting the sheer class of the 1999 Barossa vintage. 100% Shiraz. 100/100 AC
 
1998
This is going to be a legendary Grange. The wine shows an extraordinarily intense nose of creme de cassis intermixed with blueberries and almost floral notes. As the wine sits in the glass, some meat, plum, and cola notes emerge. In the mouth, it is absolute perfection, seamless, with extraordinarily sweet tannin, well-integrated acidity, sensational extract, and just layer upon layer of blackberry and cassis fruits that stain the palate and fill the mouth. Its harmony, freshness, and remarkable length (nearly a minute) suggest an all-time classic and another legend. 99/100 RP Jr. 2002

1997
Looks to be a classic Grange. The wine has a saturated purple color and a gorgeously sweet nose of blackberry liqueur intermixed with cherries, camphor, chocolate, plum, and mocha. The wine is opulently textured, extremely soft, layered, and seductive, with Grange's tell-tale personality well-displayed, but in a seamless, seductive style. 94/100 RP Jr. 2002
 
1996
Deep crimson. Highly defined meaty/gamey/plum/prune/liquorice aromas and coffee/chocolate nuances. The palate is decadently rich with lashings of sweet fruit, deep set choco-plum/prune/mocha/liquorice flavours, supple, ripe but pronounced tannins plenty of underlying oak, building up to a firm finish (99 points). Certainly it is in the same class as the 1990 and 1991 with a cellar life of decades. AC 2002

1995
Deep crimson/purple. Crushed aniseed/ginger/blackberry/oaky aromas. The palate is rich ripe and soupy with meaty, blackberry fruit flavours, some cedary, toasty oak and looseknit rasping tannins. This is an early drinking Grange, possibly in the same mould as say 1992 or 1987. AC 1999
 
 
 

1994
Deep crimson/purple. Elemental and disjointed wine with lovely deep-set choco-berry/ginger snap aromas and well-seasoned American oak. The palate is strong and powerful with deep-set, concentrated, sweet ripe fruit, cedary oak and a backbone of ripe grained tannins. In evolution. AC 1999
 
 
 

1993
Deep crimson/purple. Intense blackberry/meaty/gamey aromas with menthol nuances. The palate is sweet-fruited with apricot/meaty/menthol flavours, looseknit, gravelly tannins and excellent length. Nice balance between cool and warm. Very successful wine considering the vintage. AC 1999

1992
The opaque purple-coloured 1992 Grange exhibits an unevolved, grapey nose of sweet toasty oak, ripe prunes, black raspberries, and cassis. Full-bodied, with lavishly-displayed oaky notes, this formidably endowed, large-scaled wine should develop into an impressive example of Grange, although my instincts suggest it will not be quite as good as the 1990, 1986, or 1982. The wine was kept open for three days without any traces of oxidation. Give it 2-4 years of cellaring and consume it over the following 20 years. 93/100 RP Jr. 1998
 
1990
The 1990 is the greatest, most complete and richest Grange since the monumental 1986. It rivals the 1986, 1982, 1981 and 1980... The wine's opaque purple colour is followed by a sweet nose of jammy black-raspberry and cassis fruit intermingled with scents of minerals, liquorice, and toasty oak. Extremely full-bodied, with that layered, multi-dimensional feel that sets a truly profound Grange apart from just an outstanding one, the wine is fabulously concentrated, unctuous, and with a finish that lasts over 50 seconds... It should last through the first two decades of the 21st century. 94/100 RP Jr. 1995