HLEP: Checking Granges Authenticity.

[vinman]

Hello Ludgero!
Not a retailer, but a consumer, so can only visit the bottles that I own. Randy is correct.
Yet what is more important is the wine that you will share with you special friend. Now, many of us know Penfolds, mostly for their affordable reds, Cabernet Sauvignon Bin 407, and for a few that know Shiraz, Bin 28, and the everyday Cab/Shiraz 389, which just might the biggest inexpensive wide bodied ever! But your bottle, if it's for real, is a classic. Not as dark on the look as others, but the wine is deep in aromas, slightly thick with plum and abundant fruit flavors, definately set. Course it is structured, with a spicy (typical) mid palate, and quite positively oaked, with very noticeable tannins (first one uncorked in 1999, still there last year). But if anything, the second bottle showed a levelness at the very long finish. Only have six Granges, all doubles, and think you will enjoy this sucker one whole lot!