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...

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...

I've now been lucky enough to have two chances to taste the latest vintage of Penfolds Grange, the most famous wine of the southern hemisphere. The 2004 was launched in Australia on 1 May and was...

Leave it to the extraordinarily energetic and creative Peter Gago to ratchet up Penfolds’ annual, much ballyhooed 1 May release of its newest Grange Shiraz. It was the Penfolds' chief...