Peter Gago feels more pressure each year when making Australia's most famous wine, Penfolds' Grange.
But he is supremely confident about the 2003 Grange to be released today with a price tag of around $550 a bottle.
“It's right up there with the strong ones," Mr Gago said yesterday.
“From our perspective it's very solid. I have used the word stoic Grange — it's the real thing.
“The '03 has got all of those layers of complexity that will take it 30, 40, 50 years."
The 2003 Grange feature primarily Barossa Valley shiraz, with smaller amounts of shiraz from McLaren Vale, south of Adelaide, and Penfolds' Magill Estate vineyard in metropolitan Adelaide.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
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