When Penfolds launches its 2022 collection tomorrow, Thursday 4 August, it will include two French, or French-ish, still wines for the...

Caught in the act: me snapping the documentary cameraman from National Geographic photographing my three bottles of Grange just before we go into the recorking clinic (photograph by Helen Taylor) Genial, intelligent, amusing: everyone warms to Peter Gago, Penfolds’ chief winemaker (left), so you wouldn’t think that taking three bottles of wine for him to look at would be nerve-racking. Nerve-racking? It was agonising. First there was a 40-minute journey on public transport t

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 article was first published in Decanter magazine 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, 1968