A magnum of 2000 vintage Grange is on offer at the Langton’s auction house with a price at the time of writing of $1781. There are several standard size bottles of the 2000 currently around the $590 mark. The auction concludes on 31 January 2023.
For reference the current Grange release, the 2018, is on sale at Dan Murphy’s for $989.99.
Grange is considered as a keeper. Does that make a bargain of the 2000 vintage Grange being auctioned? For your guidance here are comments from a posting in Glug back on Friday, 15th July, 2005:
The leading US wine publication The Wine Spectator has delivered a harsh assessment of the recently released 2000 Penfolds Grange … Harvey Steiman, second only to Robert Parker in influencing sales of Australian wines in North America, concluded that the “2000 should not have been released as Grange.” …
The 2000 is the first Grange that Mr Steiman has rated at less than 90 points on his 100 point scale in the 12 years that he has been responsible for tasting Australian wine for the Wine Spectator. He tried three bottles in blind tastings rating the best of them an 89 with the other two “even earthier and less generous”. He described the wine, which sells for $US225 a bottle, as “firm and chewy in texture, it has earthy, gamy notes running through the cedary, spicy finish. There isn’t much prominent fruit. It has intensity and persistence, but the flavor profile is not attractive at this point.”
There is a collection of Glug reports and comments on Penfolds over the last two decades at the Penfods on Glug page.
