$799/bt - For the first 50 customers in store 12noon this Saturday 4th May.
Tastings also include Penfolds RWT Shiraz 2010, St Henri 2009, Bin 28 Kalimna Shiraz 2010.
Qantas epiQure: Is This The Best Grange Ever?
2008 Penfolds Grange - The Best Ever? (The Age)
where is the bargain?
The amount of Grange you'll consume in the tasting is probably worth about $20.
so we have to run on a Saturday noon to be in the first 50 who will have the chance to taste 15ml of this wine
$799/50th of a bottle = $16.
FOr some people, it will be their one and only chance to try Grange.
Don't you pity the poor plebs?
But then again, we'll never know the pleasure of Jack Daniels and Coke, premixed.
How is it not a bargain? Hand back in your membership.
Tastings at 1st Choice are always free.
I'm pretty sure they don't often crack open $800 bottles for tasting though
Don't tell them it's Ribena
what? it's not self serve?
I'm not sure how well a bargain website and a $800 bottle of wine will mix.
Personally, I think that it's just expensive so people can show how wealthy they are.
The tasting is free, think that's why it's on this site. Only 50 though.
I'm not sure how well a bargain website and a $800 bottle of wine will mix.
they seem to mix well - http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/101097#comment-1357278 :)
$749 or $669 in any six @ Dan Murphys http://danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_758655/penfolds-grange-2…
$666 @ wine star http://www.winestar.com.au/prod4399.htm
So, for $799 I can get one bottle of Penfold Grange or about ten cases of Penfolds Rawsons Retreat; you may draw your own conclusion on which of these wines you will find in my cupboard.
Dan Murphys doing free trials at a handful of stores as well.
Grange was never a drink-now proposition. Put it away for at least ten years was the general rule. This tasting is great if you planned to buy some to drink in the distant future so you can have an idea of of what it's like now to compare with later, but if you want to actually taste what Grange is like then I suspect you would walk away from this going 'meh'. Most people now buy the stuff simply as an investment, never intending to drink, as it is definitely over valued. Don't get me wrong - it's a good drop. But now priced for the investor, rather than the drinker. Sad, really.
If you do have the readies, and want to taste Grange, I'd hunt through the auction sites - for less than the new stuff you can easily get older bottles which, if they have been kept well, are better value…. in particular if you find one or two other people to share the cost….
Grange was never a drink-now proposition. Put it away for at least ten years was the general rule.
+1 20yrs+ preferably :)
but if you want to actually taste what Grange is like then I suspect you would walk away from this going 'meh'
+1 it's bragging rights
Most people now buy the stuff simply as an investment
some even day-trade…
If you do have the readies, and want to taste Grange, I'd hunt through the auction sites
and http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/101097#comment-1365748 :)
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My mum was buying Grange in the 60's and 70's…. would squirrel away some of the grocery money and put it towards a few bottles every now and then. At the time they were well over $10 a bottle… the '55 cellar release cost a massive $50. As it is I still have a number of bottles left from back then even though - when I was a lot younger and she had stopped drinking but I was using her cellar to learn about wine - I knew that old was good so pretty much my dad and I went through a lot of the really nice stuff. Anyhow yes, from my experience, somewhere between 20 and 30 years is optimum. The ones from the 70's are - with some exceptions - starting to get a bit old now. Which reminds me - I do have some bottles from the 80's I bought [when I was single and could do that sort of thing] so maybe it's time for a small dinner party. Me, a bottle of grange, and a pizza from Crust…. ;-)
Lordy. Just read that other thread. Over $1k for a magnum of Grange that's still only a baby? Keeping in mind that magnums age even slower? Great for investment, but if you actually want to drink something and you had that sort of money to spend (and we're not talking a lot of people) I'd put it towards something like a bottle of Krug grand cuvee, a bottle of Grange or Hill of Grace with some age to it, and a half bottle of d'yquem to finish. Might even have some change left for that pizza….
if you actually want to drink something now
fixed :)
pizza from Crust
please not - there are much better places for pizza!
I'd hope you get the dinner and escort for that price :S