Penfolds, Grange - Barossa Valley 2021

Penfolds, 180 years of innovative winemaking.

Since 1844, Penfolds has been grounded in experimentation, curiosity and uncompromising quality. It is a pioneering spirit which still rings true after nearly two centuries, that has helped Penfolds become one of the most celebrated winemakers in the world today. Over its 180-year history, only four winemakers have helmed Penfolds, each serving as a steward of a distinctive philosophy and style—what we might refer to as the 'House style'.There is a strand of shared DNA throughout Penfolds family of wines, yet each clearly expresses its unique persona.

Grange, the Australian iconic wine

Grange stands as Penfolds' iconic flagship red wine. It is crafted from carefully selected Shiraz grapes, mainly sourced from the Barossa Valley, with a small quantity of Cabernet Sauvignon. Born in 1951, Grange showcases Penfolds' exceptional blending expertise. Widely regarded as Australia's top-tier wine, Grange holds official recognition as a Heritage Icon of South Australia.

Tasting notes:

The Penfolds Grange 2021 Shiraz shows a deep mauve-red color with a dense black core. The nose is intense and complex, blending dark chocolate, Copha, marbled meats, soy, balsamic glaze, spices, and smoky, earthy notes.

It’s powerful, youthful, and unapologetically bold.
On the palate, it’s rich and expansive, with deep structure and dark fruit intensity drawn from Barossa, McLaren Vale, and Clare Valley.
Flavors include dark plum, star anise, liquorice, menthol, and savory notes like Worcestershire sauce and peppered beef. Tannins are sleek and firm, with subtle oak influence. A wine built for long aging, revealing more with time — classic, monumental Grange.

matthewjukes.com

byMatthew Jukesthe9/17/2025

This is a spectacular Grange. The epic balance found here was born in this wine, and it shows sensational tenderness and mellifluous energy from the very first molecule that collides with your sensors. Nothing is rushed, there are no raw edges, and there is more immediate control and synergy between the two constituent grapes than I have seen before in a fledgling Grange. There is less malevolence, and more luxury; more velvetiness and sophistication; and a heavenly texture that casts an extraordinary spell on your senses. The result is the most penetrative and resonant perfume I have seen on a young Grange, and it is derived from the sheer quality of fruit and skill employed in its creation. Instead of this wine pushing, like a volcano, from its depths of its flavour chamber towards the open ‘crater’ of the wine glass, it appears to expand in an instant, like a heart-stopping supernova, showering your receptors in unmitigated indulgence. This will go down as another landmark Grange, and yet, having tasted a sublime vertical last year, including some 47 vintages as far back as 1952, I have never tasted a Grange with this individuality and presence. 20+/20

The Drinks Business

byColin Haythe8/27/2025

(South Australia; 94% Shiraz and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon; sourced from McLaren Vale, Barossa Valley and Clare Valley; pH: 3.61; aged for 20 months in new American oak hogsheads; 14.5% alcohol). Very accomplished; very complete; very harmonious. Poised and plush, delicate and refined, but succulent and sumptuous in its way – very classical. A wine of amazing textural refinement. A true vin de garde that will outlive me but that it is accessible in its youth (I don’t imagine I was that either!). Polished and precise, focussed and rapier-like on the near infinite finish.

Wine Advocate

byErin Larkinthe7/24/2025

2021 was a magnificent season in South Australia, one blessed with good yields (a change from the previous several years of low yields and drought conditions), healthy rainfall leading into the season and dry, mild conditions during ripening. Vignerons could not have hoped for better conditions. So here, the 2021 Grange is powerful, ripe, structural yet balanced, long and complex. There is a softness to the middle palate, which speaks to the mildness of the conditions, potentially positioning this as one of the best modern-era Granges. The fruit (94% Shiraz, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon) was sourced from Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale and Clare Valley. For critics of this style, my only wish to assist with clarification could be teleportation, together, into a future 30 or 40 years from now. We would drink this wine, where it would still appear fresh and yet would have settled into its finesse and grace as well. It matured for 18 months in American oak, 100% new. 14.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork.

Jamessuckling.com

byJames Sucklingthe7/16/2025

Wow. What a release of this famed Australian wine, made from 94% shiraz and 6% cabernet sauvignon. Aromas of blackcurrants, cured meat, cedar, iodine, blackberry compote and lilacs. The palate is full-bodied with seamlessly integrated tannins and a powerful yet silken mouthfeel that persists in a long-lasting finish. You can taste the prestige and history, tied in with the expression of the warm 2021 vintage. As always, a wine for aging but drinking well now. Drink or hold.

Jane Anson, Inside Bordeaux

byJane Ansonthe7/8/2025

Grips you from the first instance. As ever with Grange, the concentration and power of is delivered with such a deft and joyful hand, walking from beginning to end of the palate accompanied by distilled black fruits, flowers and herb-strewn aromatics. Delicious, such purity of expression, and truly it is one of the world's great wines. Tom King director, Peter Gago chief winemaker. 100% new American oak for ageing.

Decanter.com

byTINA GELLIEthe6/24/2025

Confession: Grange has never been my favourite of the Penfolds portfolio (I am a St Henri girl) but I’ve been converted. And if ever a vintage were to turn me, 2021 was always going to be the one, heralded by many in South Australia as a ‘vintage of a lifetime’. Sourced from sites across the Barossa Valley (66%), McLaren Vale (26%) and Clare Valley (8%), it is a blend of 94% Shiraz and 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, which spends 18 months in 100% new American oak hogsheads, and has already integrated seamlessly into the opulent fruit. My initial impressions, hurriedly typed, start with a string of descriptors that detail just how seductive it is already: “Wow! Exotic, inky, generous, silky, ripe, velvety. Immense. Incredible. The whole package!” (My colleague Georgie Hindle wrote: “Classy and so sophisticated. Like looking at a gorgeous man in a tuxedo.”) The trademark Grange volatile acidity presents itself as macerated balsamic strawberries, tapenade and tarmac, joining mouthfilling silky tannins and sumptuous aromas and flavours of boysenberry, root beer, mocha, salted liquorice and crème caramel. If you can ignore its siren call from the cellar, it easily has three to five decades of life ahead. Released at £600.

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Couleur	Rouge
Appellation	Barossa Valley
Millesime	2021
Contenance	Magnum (1,5 l)

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Barossa Valley

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2021

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Magnum (1,5 l)

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