The indefatigable Penfolds winemaker Peter Gago was in London earlier this summer to show the latest wines from the Penfolds stable, including Grange 2007 from one of Gago's more challenging...

I do realise that I am ridiculously spoilt, I promise, in terms of the wine tastings I am invited to. This can make a wine writer horribly blasé, and it does take quite a lot to lure me over or...

Here is a short film taken at a quite amazing tasting and dinner held in Paris at the end of June where a very few lucky tasters, including me (and both singer/Etna vintner Mick Hucknall and wine...

Bin 389, first produced by Max Schubert in 1960, has been variously described as ‘baby Grange’ or the more offensive ‘poor-man’s Grange’. It’s certainly a lot less expensive...

Below are my tasting notes from last Friday's showing of Penfolds latest releases of its so-called Luxury and Icon wines, including the exceptional 2004 Grange.  I have given some background...

See also tasting notes on 22 great vintages of Grange to be published tomorrow. In time for their big sale today, Christie's hosted a Penfolds Masterclass, featuring special wines from the 1990...

This morning at the Penfolds cellar door at Magill outside Adelaide Australians were able to buy the just-released latest representatives of Penfolds’  ‘luxury and icon...

Penfolds recently launched the latest available vintages of what they call their Luxury and Icon wines. Tasting conditions were hardly ideal - a very small, very warm ‘room’ on the...

Australia’s most established maker of investment quality red wine is, for the first time, offering futures - in two very special bottlings from the 2004 vintage . They may benefit...

    Matt, USA:   This is a question for Jim from Australia...

I thought you might be interested in the results of a discussion I had the other day with Heston Blumenthal, chef-prop of The Fat Duck at Bray, one of Britain's most talented, innovative and...

The American wine magazine Wine & Spirits may be less well known than the Wine Spectator, but it is extremely well done with many features of real interest to the quality-conscious (as...

As those who have watched the Glass stoppers for Grange video will know, Penfolds' chief winemaker Peter Gago is an engaging and knowledgeable speaker. Here are a few snippets from his...

As I wrote in Heads up on Grange 2004 on Friday, with the wine still coursing through my veins, Grange 2004 is a very special wine. It is also fiendishly expensive, as one might expect of a wine...

Peter Gago spent last week in London on a punishing schedule. On the third day of the London Wine Fair he didn't make it to the bathroom once.  I caught up with him late morning Friday, after...