There's no let-up in the leading Australian wine company's ingenuity. And the Chinese are back in the market for this year's Collection, which has done nothing to dampen prices.
Peter Gago, Penfolds’ peripatetic chief winemaker, was in London last month to launch this year’s Penfolds Collection, with additional significance because Penfolds has a 180th anniversary to celebrate. It was founded in 1844 when a debt-laden English physician Dr Christopher Rawson Penfold and his wife Mary arrived to take up a land grant, ‘500 acres of the choicest land’ as quoted in Andrew Caillard’s Australian Ark, at Magill on the...