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Penfolds, rewarding patience
… and rewarding Tam and Jancis with heady verticals of Grange, Bin 389, Yattarna and a host of Special Bins. Above, the London tasting. Left to right: tasters Peter Gago...
Jancis Robinson
Friday 3 January 2025
• 8 min read
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The rewards of patience
When wines reach maturity, even those from inglorious vintages can be glorious. See the related tasting article Tuscan 2014s at 10 years old. If there is a constant undercurrent in...
Jancis Robinson
Saturday 26 October 2024
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WWC24 – Recollections brought on by reflections of resilience, by Simon Morris
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Friday 23 August 2024
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Jancis writes In June I had the great pleasure of tasting more than 30 of Penfolds top wines, including the...
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As the chief executive considers yet another company restructure in the wake of abandoned American takeover offers for Australia's biggest...
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Penfolds' chief winemaker Peter Gago has just won an unprecedented double honour. He was made both Winemaker of the Year...
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At the launch of Graham's Ne Oublie last week I was asked by a Portuguese television interviewer what I thought...
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Amazingly, this article represents the 10,000th published on JancisRobinson.com since its tentative beginnings in late 2000. It would seem we...
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You wait ages for Penfolds wines, and then they all come along... numbered like London buses. Bin 150, from Chigwell...
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The indefatigable Penfolds winemaker Peter Gago was in London earlier this summer to show the latest wines from the Penfolds...
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I do realise that I am ridiculously spoilt, I promise, in terms of the wine tastings I am invited to...
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Bin 389, first produced by Max Schubert in 1960, has been variously described as ‘baby Grange’ or the more offensive...
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As those who have watched the Glass stoppers for Grange video will know, Penfolds' chief winemaker Peter Gago is an...
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Below are my tasting notes from last Friday's showing of Penfolds latest releases of its so-called Luxury and Icon wines...
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As I wrote in Heads up on Grange 2004 on Friday, with the wine still coursing through my veins, Grange...
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I've now been lucky enough to have two chances to taste the latest vintage of Penfolds Grange, the most famous...
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Leave it to the extraordinarily energetic and creative Peter Gago to ratchet up Penfolds’ annual, much ballyhooed 1 May release...
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These are the notes from an amazing recent tasting organised in London by MARC Fine Wines of a range of...
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See also tasting notes on 22 great vintages of Grange to be published tomorrow. In time for their big sale...
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