1987 | Penfolds | Grange Bin 95

Red Wine: 1987 | Penfolds | Grange Bin 95

The palate is powerful and complex. A wine of great finesse and an impressive length in the mouth.

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Producer: Penfolds

Vintage: 1987

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13.5%

Varietal: Shiraz

Country/Region: Australia, South Australia

The palate is powerful and complex. A wine of great finesse and an impressive length in the mouth.

Producer Information

Penfolds is Australia’s most famous wine producer, best known for its flagship wine Grange, one of the most acclaimed wines in the world. The historic estate has pioneered the wine industry of Australia since its inception in the mid-19th Century. Among many other accolades, the 1955 Grange was named one of the top 12 wines of the 20th Century by Wine Spectator Magazine; the 1971 vintage was ranked as the greatest wine of the 1970s by FINE Wine Magazines and tastingbook.com, and the 2008 gained a perfect 100-point score from both Wine Spectator and Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate. It is a mainstay of the secondary market auction prices for the wine have regularly been used as key performance indicators for the wider Australian economy. Occasionally Grange is 100-percent Shiraz the 2011 was the sixth time that happened in six decades but more typically it also contains up to around 15 percent Cabernet Sauvignon. It is the flagship for Penfolds’ celebrated multi-vineyard, multi-region blending philosophy, and is sourced from Barossa, McLaren Vale, Coonawarra (occasionally) and Magill Estate at the base of the Adelaide Hills, just to the east of the city. Penfolds has a long-standing reputation for consistent high quality across its broad portfolio, and there are several other wines that feature regularly in auctions, including the Bin 707 Cabernet Sauvignon, St. Henri and RWT Shiraz wines, Bin 389 Cabernet Shiraz and Bin 407 Cabernet Sauvignon. These have been joined by experimental or periodic releases such as the Block 42 Cabernet Sauvignon and Bin 60a Cabernet Shiraz. In 2018, the portfolio was expanded into California with the release of the Bin 704 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.