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    A dazzling Penfolds Grange and much more: tasting the 2018 Collection
    • Nov 1, 2018

    A dazzling Penfolds Grange and much more: tasting the 2018 Collection

    The launch of Penfolds’ 2014 Grange last month marked the release of the 64th consecutive vintage. I haven't tasted the first, the experimental 1951, but I have tasted its successor, 1952, which likewise wasn't released commercially, and I have twice tasted the first commercial release, the extremely rare 1953 Grange Hermitage (as Grange was called at the time): first in 2003, along with the next 49 vintages of Grange, at the fifth Rewards of Patience tasting in Adelaide; and
    Penfolds Grange and Special Bins: a unique vertical tasting in Paris
    • Apr 19, 2016

    Penfolds Grange and Special Bins: a unique vertical tasting in Paris

    Hosted by the Australian Ambassador to France at "an intimate dinner", it was billed as "the first ever monumental vertical tasting of Penfolds Grange and Special Bins". I was one of the ambassador's guests This article was published in Decanter magazine in late 2011 The last time I tasted 1953 Grange – I can’t tell you how satisfying it is to be able to say that – it was outshone by the 1953 Grange Cabernet Sauvignon. That was September 2003, in Australia, at the fifth Penfo
    Iconic, historic... it must be Penfolds Grange and a Rewards of Patience tasting
    • Apr 5, 2016

    Iconic, historic... it must be Penfolds Grange and a Rewards of Patience tasting

    Penfolds' fifth Rewards of Patience was a remarkable, unrepeatable tasting over four days in September 2003. It included the complete set of 50 vintages of Grange. I was one of five wine writers invited to taste This is the article I wrote for Decanter magazine, published in June 2004: Few French wine producers could put on a tasting of 50 consecutive vintages. Who in Bordeaux would willingly show tasters their 1974, 1977 and 1984? And who in Burgundy would wish to show 1965,
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