You are bidding on a 750 ml bottle of Penfolds Grandfather Fine Old Tawny Port from Barossa Valley, South Australia. Bottle comes in a wooden box.

In 1844, Christopher Rawson Penfold planted vines on the slopes of Magill to produce fortified wines. Now the historic bluestone cellars are home to a tradition of fortified winemaking dating back over 150 years. In 1915, an oak cask containing a blend of the finest tawnies the company possessed was set aside for the exclusive use of the Penfold family. This became known as ‘the Grandfather' due to the great age of the oldest tawnies in the blend. Penfolds Grandfather Liqueur Tawny, a blend of the finest old tawnies and aged in small oak casks, honors this proud tradition and is Australia's leading example of this style. The rich yet delicate fruit character harmonizes perfectly with pronounced aged rancio complexity to produce a truly remarkable aged liqueur tawny.

Penfolds Grandfather Tawny Port is a multi-vintage blend, using Shiraz and Mourvèdre grapes. This wine is drinking fabulously now, but has a few more years on it if you want to save it for just the right moment! This wine is ideally suited to cheese and dessert

This wine is a deep amber/mahogany in color with the green gold tinges indicative of great age. The nose is extremely complex and fragrant, possessing an array of nutty, vanillin, aged characters melding seamlessly with hints of raisined fruit, malt and lifted spirit. The palate effortlessly displays the famed attributes of great Liqueur Tawny; luscious, rich and full flavored with mouth-filling viscosity and a slightly dry finish. Intense raisined fruit, walnut and toffee flavors harmonize with subtle vanillin oak and rancio complexity before a remarkably long finish.

Individual components are given extended maturation in small oak barrels in Penfolds Kalimna Tawny Cellar in the Barossa Valley before an extremely strict barrel selection process. The best barrels are carefully blended to create Penfolds Grandfather.

Wine Advocate | Robert M. Parker, Jr. | October 2006
Amazingly rich and honeyed with hints of figs, prunes, caramel, and toffee, it is a gorgeous, brilliantly made fortified wine composed of Shiraz and Mourvèdre. This brilliant fortified is remarkably light on its feet given its massive richness. Thank good winemaking, great natural instinct, and zesty acidity for keeping this wine fresh in spite of its huge residual sweetness and power. [92 POINTS]