Tasted a Grange Hermitage?

[kopenhagen5]

Anyone tasted a Grange Hermitage and is it worth spending $700 - $1,000 on?

Is it really extraordinary?

Or is maybe a Henscke a better option?

Thinking of buying one for my fathers birthday. 🙂

[bright.ton42]

Kopenhagen I know little about wine so can't give any advice like the others

have done but I'd only consider getting the Grange for your father if he is a 

true connoisseur and knows his wines and would really appreciate the expense

you'd gone to.    

[i-once-was-bump]

I have been know to drink the odd bottle of Henscke and while many rave over Hill of Grace I really like Abbot's Prayer. 

Oh those were the days when one could afford to buy bottles of red wine.

One Christmas we knocked over 6 bottles of Hill of Grace in 3 days, the best hangover I never had because wine like that does not give a hangover.

It really depends what type of wine a person likes and what they will do with it.

The Abbots Prayer I used to buy was ready to drink within the year but Hill of Grace was always meant to be put aside for a few years.

My mother is well into her 80s now so any wine for her has to be ready to drink now not in 5 years. (I hope she never reads what I just wrote!!:^O)