March 10, 2021
Liquid Icons – the fine wine research and content production company founded by the late, great Gerard Basset OBE MW MS and his friend Lewis Chester DipWSET – are delighted to announce the nominees for The Golden Vines Hall of Fame Award and The Golden Vines Innovation Award. The winners, along with other Golden Vines Award winners, will be given their Golden Vines Trophies at a fundraising event to be held at Annabel’s Private Members’ Club, London’s pre-eminent private members’ club, in Mayfair, London on 7th October 2021.
The not-for-profit Golden Vines Awards will recognise and uphold excellence in the fine wine industry and raise funds for The Gerard Basset Wine Education Charitable Foundation with the aim of funding diversity and inclusion-related wine education programmes, including the headline Golden Vines Diversity Scholarship, Internship & Mentorship Programmes.
The four new Californian wines have been available in the channel since 4 March 2021.
Australian winemaker Penfolds is in the midst of organising tastings with various duty free retailers as it looks to roll-out the California Collection in further DF&TR locations.
The four new Californian wines
(2018 Quantum Bin 98 Cabernet Sauvignon âRRP $700; 2018 Bin 149 Cabernet Sauvignon â RRP $149 â 2018 Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon â RRP $70; and 2018 Bin 600 Cabernet Shiraz â RRP $50) have been available in the channel since 4 March 2021.
Singapore Airlines (KrisShop), Lotte Duty Free
(Changi Airport and iShopChangi), Gebr. Heinemann
(Sydney Airport), China Duty Free Group
(Hainan Tourism Duty Free Shopping Complex) and CDF-Lagardère (
Hong Kong International Airport) were among the first travel retail listings.
There are four wines in this inaugural Penfolds California collection – two which are made purely from Californian fruit and two which are a blend of Australian and Californian wines.
It’s fair to say that Peter Gago has a pretty thick skin – thicker than a Shiraz berry at veraison – but what would you expect from an Aussie grafted onto Geordie rootstock? Here’s a man who’s only the fourth person to hold the post of chief winemaker for Penfolds since the first vine was planted by Dr Christopher Penfold in 1844, and when he took the post 19 years ago he said he wasn’t going to change anything.
Penfolds Unveils Inaugural Collection Of Californian Wines
A winemaking endeavour more than twenty-years in the making
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NAPA VALLEY, Calif., March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Over twenty years ago, Penfolds started exploring the bountiful soils of California, with an ambition to create a range of wines unrestricted by vine, border or continent. Today, Penfolds winemakers pick up where previous generations left off, to unveil four new Californian wines that extol an otherworldliness and something special.
Within the inaugural California Collection are four wines:
(PRNewsfoto/Penfolds)
2018 Bin 149 Cabernet Sauvignon
2018 Bin 704 Cabernet Sauvignon
2018 Bin 600 Cabernet Shiraz
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