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Penfolds Collection 2025
Today's the day this year's top Penfolds wines are released. But only after Peter Gago, above, has been round the world to present them. Penfolds is extremely important to Treasury...
Jancis Robinson
Thursday 24 July 2025
• 7 min read
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Alder on America
Wines should be a pure expression of a vintage and a place that's as specific as possible, right? Wrong, it...
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Hardy Wallace and Kate Graham’s Extradimensional Wine Co Yeah! (EWCY!) offers elegant, unconventional and multi-regional blends. With wildfires, drought, spring...
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Today is the official release day of this...
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Don't quote me
Don't do this at home but the other day I blended a Napa Cab with a Barolo, and enjoyed the...
Max on Oz
This has been the year of Australian super-blends: new, high-profile, high-priced reds that hark back to an older period in...
Hemming's spittoon
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the fire of my loins electrocuted the Rosenbergs. Which goes to show that...
Free for all
Eben Sadie (pictured) is widely regarded by South Africa's younger wine producers as a prophet in his own land, if...
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